since upgrading to 1414 my slideshow opens and extremely quickly shows each picture in the album. Is this a bug or bad install - in which case can you point me to where to correct?
Post a link.
http://www.superstarstudents.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=20&pos=1&slideshow=4#auto_shift
Small wonder that it's fast: you have set the speed to "4", which means 4 milliseconds. Default is 5000 milliseconds (which equals 5 seconds). Going to http://www.superstarstudents.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=20&pos=1&slideshow=5000#auto_shift should work as expected. If it doesn't, you must have modified the slideshow function itself. Set the slideshow speed in coppermine's config.
I've changed the frequency to 40 milliseconds and it scrolls through the slideshow - until the page finishes loading... then the slideshow freezes on that slide.
Any idea why the slideshow stops after page loading?
I was not able to spot the "Powered by Coppermine" tag on the page you refered to. No more support for you.