A customised version of iBox is used extensively on bioneural.net (e.g. the Flickr photocast here) and iBegin have just released version 2. This free JavaScript lets you display automatically scaling images, external documents, or embedded containers in an overlay dialog without needing to reload the page. iBox has gained some weight since v1.2.1 (2006) but remains compact compared to other Lightbox-alike solutions and just as simple to use, now boasting wider browser support and new plug-in capabilities (e.g. for embedding YouTube videos). In most cases it degrades gracefully when JavaScript is disabled (it won't display hidden inline containers; JavaScript is required to play YouTube videos).
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If you take out the plugins/YouTube, you save most of the weight added. While still having the benefits of less issues and skinning support.
I must have a look, but I like Lightbox Slideshow because it does slideshows ;) as well.
Unless this new version of iBox has the facility (or can be made to), of course...
Perhaps the new plug-in capabilities would permit it David (at the cost of weight), but it's not built in. However, if you were already using jQuery (for example) you could show a hidden div overlay containing a slide show (e.g. here or here) with little code overhead.