Splash page with animated gif only question

Hello all:
I have a splash page (index.html) that is designed using an animated gif created in photoshop. The rest of my site is Css/XHTML, but has some divs containing animated gifs. I have two questions;
1: By using only the animated gif on the splash page, am I limiting or hindering my SEO (google, microsoft, yahoo) ranking opportunities as there is no "content" on the page that the spiders/bots can see? I went ahead and included some "content" but hid it by coloring the type the same as the background color hoping that might do something, but obviously I'm a SEO newbie so any suggestions are more than welcomed. I will include the code at the end of this post, and my site is: http://reynolds-marketing.com.
2. Is there a way to pre-load the animated gifs on my pages so that they play more smoothly and efficiently?
TIA for any of your help. Murman
The code for the splash page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Reynolds Marketing - The Marketing Resource Source</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="Reynolds Marketing is a marketing services company offering a full spectrum of marketing services including: consultation, creative, production and logistical marketing services headquartered in Temecula, CA." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Reynolds, Reynolds Marketing, marketing services company, marketing services agency, full spectrum of marketing services, full service marketing agency, marketing consultant, print creative, digital printing, offset printing, website design, website development, digital marketing, digital print on demand, DPOD,Video Production, Video Production, Direct Mail, Temecula, powerpoint presentations" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/favicon.ico"/>

<style type="text/css">

</style>

</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#FFFFFF" link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#FFFFFF" alink="#FFFFFF" id="index_" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">
<p>

<img src="images/index.gif" alt="" width="640" height="480" border="0" usemap="#indexMap" id="index" /></p>
<p>Reynolds Marketing offers a full spectrum of marketing communications services including: consultation, creative, production and logistical marketing services located in Temecula, California. Our services include marketing consultation, press relations, public relations, copy writing, print creative, direct mail creative, video creative, web creative, interactive creative. Print production, direct mail, video production, web page creation and production. Digital print on demand, fulfillment services, powerpoint presentations, marketing communications, marketing communications conformance. To find out more about our services, please go to <a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/who_we are.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/who_we are.html</a> . </p>
<p>Site map:<br />
<a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/index.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/index.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/who_we_are.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/who_we_are.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/contact_us.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/contact_us.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/what_we_do.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/what_we_do.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/services.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/services.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/clients.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/clients.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/projects.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/projects.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/news.html">http://www.reynolds-marketing.com/news.html</a></p>
<p>
<map name="indexMap" id="indexMap">
    <area shape="rect" coords="296,434,342,444" href="who_we_are.html" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="228,451,286,461" href="who_we_are.html" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="296,451,353,461" href="what_we_do.html" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="364,451,416,461" href="contact_us.html" />
</map>

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8703884-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>
</body>
</html>

My guess is yes, but that is just my opinion. I believe the text/background same color idea was really in vogue back in the late 90's and we all heard that it was the kiss of death for SEO that the SE's hated them so much you got de-listed, not sure if that is a fact or not.
My bigger concern would be how many people you are losing by making them wait to get to where they want to go. I have told many a client that in some sense, the interent is too big, you have too much competition and people have thin patience for things like splash pages. The ooo and aaa effect of animated gifs is long dead...again, in my opinion.
I dont know the answer to your load question...
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