/**** BROWSER AND PLATFORM FLAGS ****/
	var ie = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) ? true : false;		// true if we're on ie
	var nn = (navigator.appName == "Netscape") ? true : false;		// true if we're on netscape
	
	var win = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Windows") != -1) ? true : false; // true if we're on windows
	var mac = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Macintosh") != -1) ? true : false; // true if we're on a mac

/*** END BROWSER DETECTION ***/

/**** FLASH DETECTION ****/
/* detection is impossible in these situations 
	- internet explorer 4.5 (and lower) on a mac 
	- internet explorer 3.0 on windows 
	- any browser that does not support at least javascript 1.1 (such as netscape 2.0) 
	- any version of internet explorer on windows that has its security setting on high 
	- any browser that has javascript disabled 
*/
	
	//var requiredVersion = 5;			// version the user needs to view site (max is 6, min is 2)
	
	var flash2Installed = false;		// boolean. true if flash 2 is installed
	var flash3Installed = false;		// boolean. true if flash 3 is installed
	var flash4Installed = false;		// boolean. true if flash 4 is installed
	var flash5Installed = false;		// boolean. true if flash 5 is installed
  var flash6Installed = false;		// boolean. true if flash 6 is installed
	var maxVersion = 6;					// highest version we can actually detect
	var actualVersion = 0;				// version the user really has
	var right_version = false;		// boolean. true if it's safe to embed the flash movie in the page
	
	
	// write vbscript detection if we're not on mac.
	if(ie && win){ // don't write vbscript tags on anything but ie win
		document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript> \n');
		document.write('on error resume next \n');
		document.write('flash2Installed = (IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.2"))) \n');
		document.write('flash3Installed = (IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3"))) \n');
		document.write('flash4Installed = (IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4"))) \n');
		document.write('flash5Installed = (IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.5"))) \n');	
    document.write('flash6Installed = (IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.6"))) \n');	
		document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT> \n'); // break up end tag so it doesn't end our script
	}

  //call this at the end of the flash detect script
	function detectFlash(requiredVersion){	
		if (navigator.plugins){								// does navigator.plugins exist?
			if (navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] 	// yes>> then is Flash 2 
			|| navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]){		// or flash 3+ installed?
				// set convenient references to flash 2 and the plugin description
				var isVersion2 = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] ? " 2.0" : "";
				var flashDescription = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash" + isVersion2].description;
				// a flash plugin-description looks like this: Shockwave Flash 4.0 r5
				// so we can get the major version by grabbing the character before the period
				// note that we don't bother with minor version detection. do that in your movie with $version
				var flashVersion = parseInt(flashDescription.charAt(flashDescription.indexOf(".") - 1));
				// we know the version, now set appropriate version flags
				flash2Installed = flashVersion == 2;		
				flash3Installed = flashVersion == 3;
				flash4Installed = flashVersion == 4;
				flash5Installed = flashVersion == 5;
         flash6Installed = flashVersion == 6;
			}
		}
		
		for (var i = 2; i <= maxVersion; i++) {	// loop through all versions we're checking, and set actualVersion to highest detected version
			if (eval("flash" + i + "Installed") == true) actualVersion = i;
		}
		
	// uncomment next line to display flash version during testing
	// alert("version detected: " + actualVersion);

		if (actualVersion >= requiredVersion) { 		// user has a new enough version
		   right_version = true;						
		} else {
		   right_version = false;
		}
    return right_version;
	}
	
	//detectFlash();	// call our detector now that it's safely loaded.

/*** END FLASH DETECTION ***/

/*** START WRITE FLASH CODE ***/
function FlashWrite(url,width,height,bgcolor)
{
	document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
	document.write('  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" ');
	document.write('  WIDTH=' + width + ' HEIGHT=' + height + '>');
	document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="' + url + '"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=' + bgcolor + '>'); 
	document.write(' <EMBED src="' + url + '" quality=high bgcolor=' + bgcolor + ' ');
	document.write(' swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH=' + width + ' HEIGHT=' + height);
	document.write(' TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">');
	document.write(' </EMBED></OBJECT>');
}
/*** END WRITE FLASH CODE ***/