JCycle and Drupal 7 not working correctly - jcycle

Question

I have a problem with the jQuery Cycle plugin in Drupal 7...
I use the following jQuery code to insert the div's and than the functionality of the cycle plugin :
var $ = jQuery.noConflict();
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#homepage_pics").append('<div id="slideshowContainer">');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<div class="slideshow">');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<img src="images/image1.png" width="600" height="300"/>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<img src="images/image2.png" width="600" height="300"/>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<img src="images/image3.png" width="600" height="300"/>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<img src="images/image4.png" width="600" height="300"/>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<img src="images/image5.png" width="600" height="300"/>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('</div>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<ul id="nav">');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<li id="prev">Previous</li>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('<li id="next">Next</li>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('</ul>');
$("#homepage_pics").append('</div>');
$('.slideshow').cycle({fx: 'fade', pause: 1, prev: '#prev', next: '#next'});
})
He shows the pictures but the cycle plugin does not work.
I use Drupal 7 with artisteer 4. I don't use the View module and the version of JQuery is 1.8.2
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks