running latest jQuery and Bootstrap v. 2.0.3. relevant code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-
scale=1.0">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<!-- Le styles -->
<link href="css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Le HTML5 shim, for IE6-8 support of HTML5 elements -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="myCarousel" class="carousel">
<!-- Carousel items -->
<div class="carousel-inner">
<div class="active item"><a href="#"><img
src="img/1.jpg" alt="" /
></a></div>
<div class="item"><a href="#"><img src="img/2.jpg"
alt="" /></a></
div>
<div class="item"><a href="#"><img src="img/3.jpg"
alt="" /></a></
div>
</div>
<!-- Carousel nav -->
<a class="carousel-control left" href="#myCarousel"
data-
slide="prev">‹</a>
<a class="carousel-control right" href="#myCarousel"
data-
slide="next">›</a>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Le javascript
================================================== -->
<!-- Placed at the end of the document so the pages load faster
-->
<!-- Grab Google CDN's jQuery, with a protocol relative URL; fall
back to local if necessary -->
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/
jquery.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='js/
jquery-1.7.2.min.js'>\x3C/script>")</script>
<script src="js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#myCarousel').carousel({
interval: 2000,
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>