The problem I was experiencing was one that I had a page that would load about half of the images, never all of them. I did get a chance to get with a couple other people here locally and decided to go with the preload even though Javascript and I don't get along very well. Read that as I am notas good at it as I am perl, and I rate myself as an extreme novice at Perl but hopefully learning more everyday..... :-)

Thanks again for all of the replies!
Jim