function showElement(id){
	document.getElementById(id).style.visibility = "visible";
}
function hideElement(id){
	document.getElementById(id).style.visibility = "hidden";
}
function Set_Cookie( name, value, expires, path, domain, secure )
{
// set time, it's in milliseconds
var today = new Date();
today.setTime( today.getTime() );

/*
if the expires variable is set, make the correct
expires time, the current script below will set
it for x number of days, to make it for hours,
delete * 24, for minutes, delete * 60 * 24
*/
if ( expires )
{
expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
}
var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) );

document.cookie = name + "=" +escape( value ) +
( ( expires ) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString() : "" ) +
( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "" ) +
( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) +
( ( secure ) ? ";secure" : "" );
}
function Get_Cookie( check_name ) {
	// first we'll split this cookie up into name/value pairs
	// note: document.cookie only returns name=value, not the other components
	var a_all_cookies = document.cookie.split( ';' );
	var a_temp_cookie = '';
	var cookie_name = '';
	var cookie_value = '';
	var b_cookie_found = false; // set boolean t/f default f

	for ( i = 0; i < a_all_cookies.length; i++ )
	{
		// now we'll split apart each name=value pair
		a_temp_cookie = a_all_cookies[i].split( '=' );


		// and trim left/right whitespace while we're at it
		cookie_name = a_temp_cookie[0].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');

		// if the extracted name matches passed check_name
		if ( cookie_name == check_name )
		{
			b_cookie_found = true;
			// we need to handle case where cookie has no value but exists (no = sign, that is):
			if ( a_temp_cookie.length > 1 )
			{
				cookie_value = unescape( a_temp_cookie[1].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') );
			}
			// note that in cases where cookie is initialized but no value, null is returned
			return cookie_value;
			break;
		}
		a_temp_cookie = null;
		cookie_name = '';
	}
	if ( !b_cookie_found )
	{
		return null;
	}
}
function removeElement(id){
	try{
		document.getElementById(id).parentNode.removeChild(document.getElementById(id));
	}catch(err){}
}
function getHTTPObject() {
	var xhr = false;
	if (window.ActiveXObject) {
		try {
			xhr = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} catch(e) {
			try {
				xhr = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			} catch(e) {
			xhr = false;
			}
		}
	} else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
		try {
			xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
		} catch(e) {
		xhr = false;
		}
	}
	return xhr;
}
function getMouseXY(e) {
  if (IE) { // grab the x-y pos.s if browser is IE
	var sxy = getScrollXY();
    xMouse = event.clientX + sxy[0]
    yMouse = event.clientY + sxy[1]
  } else {  // grab the x-y pos.s if browser is NS
    xMouse = e.pageX
    yMouse = e.pageY
  }  
  // catch possible negative values in NS4
  if (xMouse < 0){xMouse = 0}
  if (yMouse < 0){yMouse = 0}  
  var li = document.getElementById('loading_img');
  li.style.top = yMouse-li.offsetHeight+7+"px";
  li.style.left = xMouse+5+"px";
  return true
}
function getScrollXY() {
  var scrOfX = 0, scrOfY = 0;
  if( typeof( window.pageYOffset ) == 'number' ) {
    //Netscape compliant
    scrOfY = window.pageYOffset;
    scrOfX = window.pageXOffset;
  } else if( document.body && ( document.body.scrollLeft || document.body.scrollTop ) ) {
    //DOM compliant
    scrOfY = document.body.scrollTop;
    scrOfX = document.body.scrollLeft;
  } else if( document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.scrollLeft || document.documentElement.scrollTop ) ) {
    //IE6 standards compliant mode
    scrOfY = document.documentElement.scrollTop;
    scrOfX = document.documentElement.scrollLeft;
  }
  return [ scrOfX, scrOfY ];
}