Image rollovers not re-appearing

I hate IE

[buksida]

I have designed a country map where each provice changes colour on mouse over. Have use plain images and javascript preloader to do this. On mouse click a new browser opens with info and another map on that particular province. Now on first load it works fine but after one new province has been viewed and closed, back to the map all the rollovers have gone and IE tries to slowly reload them all as each province is rolled over again ... very annoying.

It works beautifully in Firefox.

Any suggestions on how I can maintain the rollover images without IE constantly reloading the whole thing (the main map browser window is never closed which is what baffles me).

[buksida]

Can this not be done then?

[mikeyb]

Hi buksida,

I too have found that IE reloads rollover images after clicking links etc even after preloading them, where other browsers are fine.