You just need to be a little creative: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/cycle/hover.html
Nope, that won't really work well for me. It applies to all children > and I want one of the children to be a control panel (next, previous, > pause/play) that appears on hover. Since positioning something from > outside of the slideshow container is not a good option, the entire > package is not a good option. >