Home Page Load Problem

I'm in the process of building my first site and am witnessing a homepage load problem. The site is not public yet so let me explain. My home page is static one column and consists of a small logo, no background, a slider with 4 featured images (jpegs 50-116K), a text post followed by a 4-song JPlayer (MP3s). When I refresh the homepage the first featured image comes up immediately but content from lower on the page temporarily appears partially underneath the image, distorting the page badly. After a few seconds the page updates and the text and audio player move down the page to their proper place. The problem is intermittent and seems worse after clearing the cache or making significant changes to the page. I use Godaddy's Managed Wordpress hosting and the system speed seems excellent. Any ideas what might be causing this?