Reseting animated GIF ?

I want to use animated gifs as MouseOver in rollover buttons.
Somehow when I put this together the animation only works for the
first time I do the MouseOver. - the anim gifs in the Mouse over
state are set with an end state- not looping. I want the sequense
to restart every time I have a MouseOut and then go back with
MouseOver.
I get this to work if i dont put in preload images as default
but then I will have problems with delays instead. Do anyone know
how to solwe this problem ??
Greetings from Sweden !

whether an animated gif replays is a browser preference
setting. There's
nothing you can do in html to control it afaik.
many browsers have this setting at something like "play once"
Alan
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> But the original image is an animated GIF and it's less
than 1KB big! So
> how
> does it increase in size 100 times when I save it
even if I don't
> change
> anything about the image before saving? There is no
PNG file but I can
> link
> you to the original 650 Byte Animated GIF:
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> But the original image is an animated GIF and it's less
than 1KB big! So
> how
> does it increase in size 100 times when I save it
even if I don't
> change
> anything about the image before saving? There is no
PNG file but I can
> link
> you to the original 650 Byte Animated GIF:
>
>
http://www.aotplaza.com/Prod.gif
>
> Is it something to do with my settings perhaps? Like
telling it to save
> extra
> information in the file?
>

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