flakey asyncRequest

        YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest("GET", "http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/carousel/assets/php/getimages.php", {
                success: function (o) {
                    var i, r = eval('(' + o.responseText + ')');
                    
                    curpos = r.length;

                    for (i = 0; i < curpos; i++) {
                        items.push(r[i]);
                    }

                    // check if the Carousel widget is available
                    if (typeof carousel != "undefined") {
                        for (i = 0; i < curpos; i++) {
                            // if so, shove the elements into it
                            carousel.addItem(getImageTag(items[i]));
                        }
                        carousel.set("selectedItem", 0);
                        items = [];
                    }
                },

                failure: function (o) {
                    alert("Ajax request failed, George!");
                }
        });