Endless Loop for setTimeout

[pindi]

Does anyone know why this function would loop endlessly? If you want the entire code, I can post it. It doesn't loop when I remove the timeout part of the code, so something to do with it looping back to flyIn().

I can maybe add yet another counter that quits the function after one loop, but that seems like a cheat and I'd rather do it correctly.

It works perfectly otherwise (it is supposed to glide some elements of the web page to the left). Like I said I can post everything if necessary.

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function flyIn(evnt){
   //shifts y-axis far to the left
var y = -100;
//choses the label div or class
   if (document.querySelectorAll)
      {
      labels = document.querySelectorAll('div.label');
         }
      else if (document.getElementsByClassName)
         {
      labels = document.getElementsByClassName('label');
      }
//loops through the labels
   if (labels){
         for (var i=1; i <= labels.length; i++)
            {var labelName = "label" + i;
//picks the labels by each Id
               var objFly = document.getElementById(labelName);
//starts a counter
         for (var MoveI=0; MoveI < 200; MoveI++)
               
   {
//sets the position, one pixel at a time
   y = y + 1;
   number_y = y;
   document.getElementById(labelName).style.left = number_y + "px";
   if (number_y < 100) {
        window.setTimeout("flyIn()", 1000);
} alert("got this far");
}
   y=-100;
   }
      }
}