menu which controls sliding to images

[raydius]

I have been looking for tutorials which show the following:

an image gallery.
when a thumbnail or menu number is clicked it slides the images to the appropriate number.

Ex: I start at image #1, and then click on image link #8, the images above the menu will slide from right to left until I end on #8. If I then click on #5, The images will slide to the 5th image going past each image until it arrives at the chosen image.

Any help on finding an existing tutorial is appreciated. I have found tutorials on using xml to load the images, but now how to slide to the correct image based on a menu.