Hi Foxy Mod
with your kind and patient "shoe horn" activity, my - and my customers - idea is successfully implemented. Using your last proposal and what I've learned in this thread, I now have 4 banners with individual holding times and switching like clockwork. Many thanks!
This is the whole and final working code - never mind any possibly retro elements...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><title></title></head><script style = "text/javascript" >var rollover = [ "_band-emo-308x70.jpg", "_band-nis-308x70.jpg", "_band-rab-308x70.jpg", "_band-nis-308x70.jpg"];var intervals = [ 7000, 7000, 4000, 35000];var number = 0;var hold = 7000;var lg = intervals.length;setTimeout(change, hold); // holding preloaded emofunction change() { number++; if (number == lg ) { number = 0 }; document.getElementById("rollover").src = rollover[number]; hold = intervals[number]; setTimeout(change, hold);}</script><div style="position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px;"><img id="rollover" src="_band-emo-308x70.jpg" alt="image" width="308" height="70"></div></html>