Is there a way to set a frame at which an image an sequence will start to run, or will it always start running on the first frame of the animation?

i think u should just load the first image u want your anim to start.

Do you mean choose when "the camera starts to move" or when "the animation will start"?

When the image sequence animation starts. In Lightwave you can just tell the sequence which frame to start running on simple as that.

At least for the simple animations (with the Animation Wizard at least - haven't dived too deeply into the editors yet), the frame you're looking at in your Camera View is going to be your starting point. And then it just goes forward (or whatever direction you want) from there. But in the editor you can set that the animation will begin (say, wind blowing trees and grass, cars moving forward, etc.) so things start happenening, and then you can set keyframes for the CAMERA to start moving around in the scene.