Spry Accordion menu opens on page load then closes

Question

Hello,
I'm having issues with a SPRY Accordion menu loading with all of the tabs open, then closing once the page finishes loading.
Example page is here:
http://thesparkmachine.com/mca2009/academics
(site is still being worked on, so forgive any oddities)
Is this something that is occurring because of the large amount of material loading on the page at once? The site is Joomla!-based, and there are close to a dozen modules on the page, plus an random background image script.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks!

Answer 1

I see you have also fixed your menu sections linking..
But i still wanted to give you some advice on why it opens and closes.
If you check out the source of your page, you will see that the constructor for your accordion is at the bottom of the page. When the browser loads the page, it parses from top to bottom, so it has parsed the accordion markup. But not yet the constructor for the accordion, so once it finally done with parsing the rest of the markup it finds the constructor and executes it.
What would have helpt, if you just moved the <script> with the constructor to directly under the accordion. So when the accordion markup has been parsed the brower directly executes the scripts.