slides load, but do not scroll/fade/transition

Hi everyone.

So I've used this on a number of sites, including the lastest version on another website and it's working perfectly.
This new website I'm working on is giving me a terrible bug resulting in the divs with the data either being loaded and hidden, or loaded underneath the "first" item in the slideshow, but neither of these displays of content will rotate.

I checked my other page template for the working websites, and I used a custom "region" with which I targeted the view block to load within. On this new site, I used the snippet that starts with "$view = views_get_view('blablabla');".

Both are methods I've used to have it load the block before, but this time around it seems as neither of them will work.

Basically what I've done for this new website is set up a number of alerts with boxes that indicate the alert level (think homeland security). But there may be more than one alert at a time, so this 196x120px box is supposed to rotate the alerts.

Now on the previous website I did last week, I got it to rotate a homepage header... and this is much the same... but for some reason it either hides the rotating content and doesn't rotate, or shows all of the content underneath the first item in the list, and does not rotate it.

I am using the YahooUI CSS and Base, Grid, Font + Reset CSS, and I disabled those to see if it would work, but to no avail.

I also enabled all permissions on everything for the admin role that i created... still nothing :-(

Can anyone at least point me in the right direction? I would appreciate some assistance with small features that I should look at to be sure I didn't glance over anything.