PHP Question with jquery slideshow

Hello all,

I am using a jquery script to create a slideshow. I am using it in WordPress and with some customization it is working so far. I am not very good at PHP and I am having some trouble with arrays. I am wondering if there is a way to do the following things.
Each slideshow needs a unique name. You can see where I’ve notated where I need the slideshow value appended to a “div#” so that each post has a unique slideshow div name.

Secondly, I am manually entering the number of slides contained in the slideshow list. How can I grab the number that’s in that array and then use it to populate the results. This is what I have:

• <img src=”<?php echo $src_featured_image3; ?>” width=”331″ height=”255″ />

I’m guessing it would need to be a short if then loop to see if there is a result and then pipe the result into a <?php echo $src_featured_image[a]; ?> kind of thing. The variables themselves are being entered in custom fields.

I can expand if any of this is confusing.
Thanks!
I hope this code shows up correctly here….

<script type="text/javascript">
			$(window).bind("load", function() {
			$("div#slideshow").slideView(); //this is where I want the array value
		}); 

	</script>

 <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();  ?>
   <div class="twoColFixLtHdr">

				<?php
						$project = get_post_meta($post->ID, "project_value", true);
						$client = get_post_meta($post->ID, "client_value", true);
	$slideshow = get_post_meta($post->ID, "slideshow_value", true);
						$src_featured_image1 = get_post_meta($post->ID, "src_featured_image1_value", true);
						$src_featured_image2 = get_post_meta($post->ID, "src_featured_image2_value", true);
						$src_featured_image3 = get_post_meta($post->ID, "src_featured_image3_value", true);
				?>

	<div>
		<div id="container">
 		 <div id="header">

   			 <h1><?php echo $project; ?></h1>
			</div>
 <div id="<?php echo $slideshow; ?>"class="svw">
    <ul>
    	<li><img src="<?php echo $src_featured_image1; ?>" width="331" height="255" /></li>
    	<li><img src="<?php echo $src_featured_image2; ?>" width="331" height="255" /></li>
    	<li><img src="<?php echo $src_featured_image3; ?>" width="331" height="255" /></li>
    </ul>

  </div>
  <div id="mainContent">
    <p class="h2">

   		 <?php if($client !== '') {  ?>
			<span class="style2">CLIENT</span>&nbsp;<?php echo $client; ?><br />
						<?php } ?>
		<?php if($company !== '') {  ?>
			<span class="style2">COMPANY</span>&nbsp;<?php echo $company; ?><br />
						<?php } ?>	

    <p class="entry"><?php the_content() ?>

  </div>
</div>