I work on a website using AnythingSlider. My current setup works in every browser, except Internet Explorer 8 and it's driving me nuts. IE8 bugs out of the Javascript with the following error:

'2' is null or not an object in anythingslider.js line 6
'2' is null or not an object in anythingslider.js line 6

(the error does appear twice in the error console). My current setup (version 1.8.7) is configured as follows:

$('#gallery').anythingSlider({
    buildStartStop: false,
    resizeContents: false,
    hashTags:       false,

    appendBackTo: $('#slidernav span:eq(0)'),
    appendControlsTo: $('#slidernav span:eq(1)'),
    appendForwardTo: $('#slidernav span:eq(2)'),

    forwardText: "»",
    backText:    "«",

    // Enable slide functionality
    onInitialized: function(e, slider) {
        var time = 1000, // allow movement if < 1000 ms (1 sec)
            range = 50,  // swipe movement of 50 pixels triggers the slider
            x = 0, t = 0;

        // Bind events to the slider
        slider.$window.bind('touchstart', function(e){
            // Store starting position of swipe
            t = (new Date()).getTime();
            x = e.originalEvent.touches ? e.originalEvent.touches[0].pageX : e.pageX;
        });

        slider.$window.bind('touchend', function(e){
            // Terminates swipe
            t = 0; x = 0;
        });

        slider.$window.bind('touchmove', function(e){
            // Calculate how far and how long we've moved
            var newx = e.originalEvent.touches ? e.originalEvent.touches[0].pageX : e.pageX,
            r = (x === 0) ? 0 : Math.abs(newx - x),
            ct = (new Date()).getTime();
            // Determine whether we've moved far and long enough to advance the slidedeck
            if (t !== 0 && ct - t < time && r > range) {
                // Do not scroll the page
                e.preventDefault();
                // Advance slider
                if (newx < x) { slider.goForward(); }
                if (newx > x) { slider.goBack(); }
                // Reset touch-event
                t = 0; x = 0;
            }
        });
    }
})

I've tracked the bug to:

resizeContents: false

If I remove that line, it works in IE8. But I need to the line to whip my content (from Wordpress and not-so-savvy users) in shape. Any help would be much appreciated!