I just hope it makes sense in the end.. hey, I'm just glad to be able to start sharing on a website I'm building the way I want. More on that later, still plenty of work related projects that need attention. You'll get more insight about those of course so stay tuned :)
Here's my take at a sliding thumbnail link with jquery.
Edit (02/04/09) : removed the first line in the first hover section with the .siblings() selector and set the queue parameter to false in the animations, otherwise the thumbnails could animate themselves for hours if you moved your mouse over them quickly ;)
Following Jan Sorgalla's example of a circular carousel, I had to do get this working with switching content associated with each carousel item. Since the circular carousel solution simply reloads items after each other, we have to keep track of what is where. In my case it was team members of a company website, and you want their name and info to keep up with their picture moving left and right.