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Not animated gifs themselves, but you can simulate their effect through the use of .png files with the following (taken from the 'FORUM SCRIPT LISTINGS'):
The Idea here, is to replace GIF's with a chain of png or whatever files. You create the image just as you would a sprite (acutally, its just a complex sprite) and the script takes care of the rest. This is more of a tool for scripters.