Jquery cycle thumbnails with timthumb in WordPress

Hi all

I’m having real problems here so any help would be really appreciated.

I’m using the jQuery cycle menu here to create a slideshow and thumbnails.

http://www.ttmt.org.uk/forum/wordpress/

I want to create the same thing in WordPress

http://www.ttmt.org.uk/wordpress/

The slideshow works but thumbnails don’t show.

I think part of the problem is creating the thumbnails in WordPress so I’m using
timthumb to create the thumbnails – http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/projects/timthumb/

I have downloaded timthumb and named the file thumb.php then put it in the folder thumb

I’m using this to try and create the thumbnails from timthumb.

<script type="text/javascript">

  $(window).load(function() {
     $('#slideshow').cycle({
          fx: 'fade',
          speed: 800,
          timeout: 3000,
          pause:     1,
          next: '#next',
          prev: '#prev',
          pager:  '#thumbs', 

          pagerAnchorBuilder: function(idx, slide) {
            return '
<li><a href="#"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>thumb/thumb.php?src="' + slide.src + '"&h=50&w=50&zc=1" /></a></li>
';
          } 

  });

</script>

Can anyone see why this isn’t working?

Will this ever work? Should I stop trying?