/**** 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 ****/
	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;
		}

		if (actualVersion >= requiredVersion) { 		// user has a new enough version
		   right_version = true;						
		} else {
		   right_version = false;
		}
    return right_version;
	}
/*** END FLASH DETECTION ***/