AnnaBrown

This was fixed by 1and1 adding an .htaccess file with

AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

It was then saved to the root file my project.

Sorry here is the code.

<div id=container>
<?php wp_cycle(); ?>
</div>

I am very new to WordPress but was able to get a slideshow to work for my header on my test site. I used the wp-cycle.

Placed the following code in the header.php