function initScroller() {
  // arguments: id of layer that scrolls, width and height of scroller (of wn), 
  // number of items (including repeated 1st item), axis ("v" or "h")
  // set up pause/resume onmouseover/out? (true or false)
  var scr1 = new dw_scroller('cnt', 350, 350, 4, "v", true);
  scr1.setTiming(100, 7000);
}

function LTrim(str)
/*
   PURPOSE: Remove leading blanks from our string.
   IN: str - the string we want to LTrim
*/
{
   var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");

   var s = new String(str);

   if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) {
      // We have a string with leading blank(s)...

      var j=0, i = s.length;

      // Iterate from the far left of string until we
      // don't have any more whitespace...
      while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)
         j++;

      // Get the substring from the first non-whitespace
      // character to the end of the string...
      s = s.substring(j, i);
   }
   return s;
}

/*
==================================================================
RTrim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without trailing spaces.
==================================================================
*/
function RTrim(str)
/*
   PURPOSE: Remove trailing blanks from our string.
   IN: str - the string we want to RTrim

*/
{
   // We don't want to trip JUST spaces, but also tabs,
   // line feeds, etc.  Add anything else you want to
   // "trim" here in Whitespace
   var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");

   var s = new String(str);

   if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(s.length-1)) != -1) {
      // We have a string with trailing blank(s)...

      var i = s.length - 1;       // Get length of string

      // Iterate from the far right of string until we
      // don't have any more whitespace...
      while (i >= 0 && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(i)) != -1)
         i--;


      // Get the substring from the front of the string to
      // where the last non-whitespace character is...
      s = s.substring(0, i+1);
   }

   return s;
}

/*
=============================================================
Trim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without leading or trailing spaces
=============================================================
*/
function trim(str)
/*
   PURPOSE: Remove trailing and leading blanks from our string.
   IN: str - the string we want to Trim

   RETVAL: A Trimmed string!
*/
{
   return RTrim(LTrim(str));
}


function isEmail(string) {
	if (string.search(/^\w+((-\w+)|(\.\w+))*\@[A-Za-z0-9]+((\.|-)[A-Za-z0-9]+)*\.[A-Za-z0-9]+$/) != -1){
		return true;
	}else{
		return false;
	}
}

function numeric_dot(string) {
	if (string.search(/^[0-9\.]*$/) != -1){
		return true;
	}else{
		return false;
	}
}

function numeric(string) {
	if (string.search(/^[0-9]*$/) != -1){
		return true;
	}else{
		return false;
	}
}

function blurText(text){
	if(trim(text.value) == ''){
		text.value = text.defaultValue;
	}
}

function focusText(text){
	if(text.value == text.defaultValue){
		text.value='';
	}
}

function clear_textbox()
{
if (document.searchadviser.searchstring.value == "search our site...")
document.searchadviser.searchstring.value = "";
}