Slideshow transitions speeds and slide duration

Yet again I'm updating a site created in a previous version of Muse and run into problems. Can anyone enlighten me?
The site - www.edinburghblue.co.uk - contains two slideshows. One contains the site background images and the second contains rotating text information.
In the original Muse site both slideshows had a Transition Speed of 0.5 seconds and the image duration was set to 5 seconds. Both slideshow changed in sync.
Since opening and updating the site in Muse v4.1 Build 8 - this morning - the slideshows are now out of sync. I've been phaffing around with the settings but the bottomline is that the site doesn't look as slick as it once did.
Has anyone encountered the same issue? If yes, how did you resolve it?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Thanks for the compliment Malcolm.
On the face of it the slides do look in sync but for me there's almost a half second delay between the two shows.
In the previous version of the site the background image changed at exactly the same time as the text.
If you look closely there now appears to be a slight delay.
I'm aware that Adobe provided us with more controls over slideshow transitions, which was most welcome.
I just wondered if there were any guidelines anywhere on how to use them.
It may be a case that different bandwidths are causing this slight outage - but that's me speaking off the top of my head!
I'll muck around with the settings a bit more and see if I can achieve the same effect as the site once had.

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