   var http_request = false;
   var divid = false;
   var isRefresh = "";
	
   function makeRequest(url, parameters,showresults,dorefresh) {
 	  isRefresh = dorefresh;
      divid = showresults;	
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http_request) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
      http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
      http_request.open('GET', url + parameters, true);
      http_request.send(null);
   }

   function alertContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            result = http_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById(divid).innerHTML = result;   
			
			if (isRefresh == "true")
			location.reload(true);
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
   function get(obj) {
      var getstr = "?";
      for (i=0; i<obj.childNodes.length; i++) {
         if (obj.childNodes[i].tagName == "INPUT") {
            if (obj.childNodes[i].type == "text") {
               getstr += obj.childNodes[i].name + "=" + obj.childNodes[i].value + "&";
            }
            if (obj.childNodes[i].type == "checkbox") {
               if (obj.childNodes[i].checked) {
                  getstr += obj.childNodes[i].name + "=" + obj.childNodes[i].value + "&";
               } else {
                  getstr += obj.childNodes[i].name + "=&";
               }
            }
            if (obj.childNodes[i].type == "radio") {
               if (obj.childNodes[i].checked) {
                  getstr += obj.childNodes[i].name + "=" + obj.childNodes[i].value + "&";
               }
            }
         }   
         if (obj.childNodes[i].tagName == "SELECT") {
            var sel = obj.childNodes[i];
            getstr += sel.name + "=" + sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].value + "&";
         }
         
      }
      makeRequest('get.php', getstr);
   }

/* Client-side access to querystring name=value pairs
	Version 1.2.3
	22 Jun 2005
	Adam Vandenberg
*/
function Querystring(qs) { // optionally pass a querystring to parse
	this.params = new Object()
	this.get=Querystring_get
	
	if (qs == null)
		qs=location.search.substring(1,location.search.length)

	if (qs.length == 0) return

// Turn <plus> back to <space>
// See: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1
	qs = qs.replace(/\+/g, ' ')
	var args = qs.split('&') // parse out name/value pairs separated via &
	
// split out each name=value pair
	for (var i=0;i<args.length;i++) {
		var value;
		var pair = args[i].split('=')
		var name = unescape(pair[0])

		if (pair.length == 2)
			value = unescape(pair[1])
		else
			value = name
		
		this.params[name] = value
	}
}

function Querystring_get(key, default_) {
	// This silly looking line changes UNDEFINED to NULL
	if (default_ == null) default_ = null;
	
	var value=this.params[key]
	if (value==null) value=default_;
	
	return value
}

