I quess what happen is that the rotator function gets called before the 
document is completely loaded. You might want to try to either time the 
the execution of the rotate() function or put the function call in an 
onload event of transparent 1 by 1 pix GIF (<img scr="1pix.gif" 
onload="rotate()">) wich you place just before the closing body tag.

Eelco