I think this would be a great opportunity to use some very simple jQuery. I did a quick draft of the code on jsfiddle jsfiddle.net/Ee37A/4 for you to see. You would obviously need to style the divs and replace the text with your images, but I think this would be a much cleaner method to achieve what you're looking for.
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