function menuIEMain () {
	if (document.all&&document.getElementById) {
		navRoot = document.getElementById("contBoxesLeft");
		addJavascript(navRoot);
		navRoot = document.getElementById("contBoxesRight");
		addJavascript(navRoot);
	}
}

function menuIE (idName) {
	if (document.all&&document.getElementById) {
		navRoot = document.getElementById(idName);
		addJavascript(navRoot);
	}
}


function addJavascript (navRoot) {
	for (i=0; i<navRoot.childNodes.length; i++) {
		node = navRoot.childNodes[i];
		node.onmouseover=function() {  this.className+="over"; 	}
		node.onmouseout=function() { this.className=""; }
	}
}

function loadPicture (linkId,imageId) {	
	document.getElementById(linkId).style.background ="url(images/"+imageId+".jpg)";
}

function findPosLeft(obj) {
	var curleft = 0;
	if (obj.offsetParent) {
		curleft = obj.offsetLeft
		while (obj = obj.offsetParent) {
			curleft += obj.offsetLeft
		}
	}
	return curleft;
}

function findPosTop(obj) {
	var curtop = 0;
	if (obj.offsetParent) {
		curtop = obj.offsetTop
		while (obj = obj.offsetParent) {
			curtop += obj.offsetTop
		}
	}
	return curtop;
}


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" : "" );
}


// this fixes an issue with the old method, ambiguous values 
// with this test document.cookie.indexOf( name + "=" );
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;
	}
}