function gallerific() {
	// Initially set opacity on thumbs and add
	// additional styling for hover effect on thumbs
	var onMouseOutOpacity = 0.8;
	$('#thumbs ul li').opacityrollover({
		mouseOutOpacity:   onMouseOutOpacity,
		mouseOverOpacity:  1.0,
		fadeSpeed:         'fast',
		exemptionSelector: '.selected'
	});
	
	// Initialize Advanced Galleriffic Gallery
	var gallery = $('#thumbs').galleriffic({
		delay:                     2500,
		numThumbs:                 10,
		preloadAhead:              10,
		maxPagesToShow:            5,
		enableTopPager:            false,
		enableBottomPager:         true,
		imageContainerSel:         '#slideshow',
		controlsContainerSel:      '#controls',
		captionContainerSel:       '#caption',
		loadingContainerSel:       '#loading',
		renderSSControls:          true,
		renderNavControls:         false,
		autoStart: false,
		playLinkText:              'Play Slideshow',
		pauseLinkText:             'Pause Slideshow',
		prevLinkText:              '‹ Previous Photo',
		nextLinkText:              'Next Photo ›',
		nextPageLinkText:          '›',
		prevPageLinkText:          '‹',
		enableHistory:             true,
		syncTransitions:           true,
		defaultTransitionDuration: 900,
		onSlideChange:             function(prevIndex, nextIndex) {
			// 'this' refers to the gallery, which is an extension of $('#thumbs')
			this.find('ul.thumbs').children()
				.eq(prevIndex).fadeTo('fast', onMouseOutOpacity).end()
				.eq(nextIndex).fadeTo('fast', 1.0);
				//alert(this.find('#thumbs ul').children().eq(nextIndex).attr());
	
			// Update the photo index display
			/*this.$captionContainer.find('div.photo-index')
				.html('Photo '+ (nextIndex+1) +' of '+ this.data.length);*/
		},
		onPageTransitionOut:       function(callback) {
			this.fadeTo('fast', 0.0, callback);
		},
		onPageTransitionIn:        function() {
			var prevPageLink = this.find('a.prev').css('visibility', 'hidden');
			var nextPageLink = this.find('a.next').css('visibility', 'hidden');
			
			// Show appropriate next / prev page links
			if (this.displayedPage > 0)
				prevPageLink.css('visibility', 'visible');
	
			var lastPage = this.getNumPages() - 1;
			if (this.displayedPage < lastPage)
				nextPageLink.css('visibility', 'visible');
	
			this.fadeTo('fast', 1.0);
		}
	});
	
	/**************** Event handlers for custom next / prev page links **********************/
	
	gallery.find('a.prev').click(function(e) {
		gallery.previousPage();
		e.preventDefault();
	});
	
	gallery.find('a.next').click(function(e) {
		gallery.nextPage();
		e.preventDefault();
	});
	
	/****************************************************************************************/
	
	/**** Functions to support integration of galleriffic with the jquery.history plugin ****/
	
	// PageLoad function
	// This function is called when:
	// 1. after calling $.historyInit();
	// 2. after calling $.historyLoad();
	// 3. after pushing "Go Back" button of a browser
	function pageload(hash) {
		// alert("pageload: " + hash);
		// hash doesn't contain the first # character.
		if(hash) {
			$.galleriffic.gotoImage(hash);
		} else {
			gallery.gotoIndex(0);
		}
	}
	
	// Initialize history plugin.
	// The callback is called at once by present location.hash. 
	$.historyInit(pageload, "advanced.html");
	
	// set onlick event for buttons using the jQuery 1.3 live method
	$("a[rel='history']").live('click', function(e) {
		if (e.button != 0) return true;
	
		var hash = this.href;
		hash = hash.replace(/^.*#/, '');
	
		// moves to a new page. 
		// pageload is called at once. 
		// hash don't contain "#", "?"
		$.historyLoad(hash);
	
		return false;
	});

}