jquery image/description replacement with fade
<p>I am simply(for you, not me) trying to add image fading to the following code kindly provided by www.webdesignerwall.com. </p>

<pre><code>$(document).ready(function(){
     $("h2").append('&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;')
     $(".thumbs a").click(function(){
       var largePath = $(this).attr("href");
       var largeAlt = $(this).attr("title");
       $("#largeImg").attr({ src: largePath, alt: largeAlt });  
       $("h2 em").html(" (" + largeAlt + ")"); return false;
     });
});
</code></pre>

<p>I have so far lost a lot of sleep/hair attempting to tie in a fading function from other code. 
And from that other code, I have been unable to find anything that also has the .append function like this one has.
I know this is childs play for most of you Jquery/javascript professionals. Unfortunately, the webdev gods were not as kind to me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. </p>
