Question

in IE jQuery Cycle Plugin sets the background to white… even i have the CSS transparent for everything

Answer 1

This is the correct answer to the original question:

Add this param to your jQuery:
cleartypeNoBg:true

so it should look like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#your_div_id').cycle({       
        fx: 'fade',
        cleartypeNoBg:true
    });
});

-W