Objects in a circle around another object

Hey everyone,
I work for a non-profit and we are adding more Partner's to our building, and so we need to add them to our "Partners" page, which currently looks like this: http://gapfamilycenter.org/partners.php <- that doesn't work for 13 partners, so we are trying to come up with a better, more fluid/unversal way to put partner logo's on that page without having to redo the whole layout every time we add or remove a partner organization...
So, what I want to do is place pictures in a circle around another picture, and each picture needs to be clickable in a link, but I don't know how to do that (and I DON'T want to use flash)... Anyone have any idea's help on this? (I created a rough mock-up in photoshop so you can see the end result, the spacing would be done better on the final, this is jsut a rough idea)

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Message was edited by: JJMack
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Message was edited by: JJMack
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