function makeNewGlobal(varName, val) {window[varName] = val;}
function getBrowser()
{
obj = String(navigator.userAgent)
browser=""
if(obj.indexOf('Netscape') > -1){browser="Netscape";return browser}
if(obj.indexOf('Opera') > -1){browser="Opera";return browser}
if(obj.indexOf('Firefox') > -1){browser="Firefox";return browser}
if(obj.indexOf('MSIE') > -1){browser="IE";return browser}
if(obj.indexOf('Gecko') > -1){browser="Mozilla";return browser}
browser="Mozilla"; return browser; //for all other browsers - make them Mozilla
}

browser=getBrowser();
makeNewGlobal('browser',browser);

function getObj(obj)
{
	if(browser=='IE' || browser=='Opera'){var obj = document.all[obj]}
	if(browser=='Netscape' || browser=='Firefox' || browser=='Mozilla'){var obj = document.getElementById(obj)}
	return obj;
}


function replaceChars(subject,out,add) 
{
temp = "" + subject;
while (temp.indexOf(out)>-1) 
	{
	pos = temp.indexOf(out);
	temp = "" + (temp.substring(0, pos) + add + 
	temp.substring((pos + out.length), temp.length));
	}
return temp;
}




function pngfix()
{
//if(browser=="Opera"){return false;}

if (document.all)
	{
	var i, a, f;
	for(i=0; (a = document.getElementsByTagName("img")[i]); i++)
		{
			if (a.className=="pnga")
				{
				f = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='"+a.src+"')";
				a.src = "blank.png"; // Blank image required
				a.style.filter = f;
				}
		}
	}
 showWelcome()
}

function showWelcome()
{
	document.getElementById('welcomDiv').style.display='block'
}

///////----------------------MACROMEDIA PRELOAD AND SWAP IMAGES
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}

function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
   var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
   if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

//////////////////////////


function getURLvar(URLvar,frame)
{
loc = String(eval(frame).location)
if(loc.indexOf(URLvar)!=-1)
	{
		startVarName=loc.indexOf(URLvar)
		newLoc=loc.substring(startVarName,loc.length)
		x=0
		while((newLoc.charAt(x)!="?") && (newLoc.charAt(x)!="" ))
			{
			x++;
			}
			
		newURLvar= newLoc.substr(0,x)
		newURLvar= replaceChars(newURLvar,URLvar+"=","")
		return newURLvar;
	}

else return false
}