function rememberFirstPlayback(){
	document.cookie = 'skipTransitions=true;path=/';
}

function checkPriorPlayback(){
	var cookies = document.cookie;
	var pos = cookies.indexOf('skipTransitions=');
	if(pos != -1){
		return 'true';
	}
	else{
		return 'false';
	}
}

function generateSpotlightsFlash(){
	var skipTransitions = checkPriorPlayback();
	
	var flashHtml = "<object id='spotlights-swf' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0' width='1000' height='600' align='middle'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='sameDomain' /><param name='movie' value='../media/spotlights.swf' /><param name='quality' value='high' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff' /><param name='FlashVars' value='skipTransitions=" + skipTransitions + "'><embed src='../media/spotlights.swf' FlashVars='skipTransitions=" + skipTransitions + "' quality='high' wmode='transparent' bgcolor='#FFFFFF' width='1000' height='600' name='www/media/spotlights' align='middle' allowscriptaccess='sameDomain' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' /></object>";
	var spotlights = document.getElementById('spotlights');
	spotlights.innerHTML = flashHtml;
}

function browser(formControl){
	var go = formControl.find("a");
	var selectControl = formControl.find("select");
	go.bind("click", {control: selectControl}, function(event){
		var control = event.data.control;
		var filter = control.attr('value');
		if(filter == 'Please select')
			return false
			
		var l = window.location;
		window.location.pathname = browserPath(l.pathname, filter);
		return false;
	});
}

function browserPath(pathname, value){
	if(pathname.indexOf(".html") == -1)
		return pathname + value + ".html";
		
	return pathname.replace(/[-_0-9a-z]+\.html$/i, value + ".html");
}