function setCookie (name, value, expires) 
   {
   if (!expires) 
      expires = new Date();
   document.cookie = name + "=" + escape (value) + "; expires=" +  expires.toGMTString() +  "; path=/";
   } // setCookie()

function getCookie (name) 
{    
	var dcookie = document.cookie; 
 	var cname = name + "=";    
	var clen = dcookie.length;    
	var cbegin = 0;
        while (cbegin < clen) {        
	var vbegin = cbegin + cname.length;
       	if (dcookie.substring(cbegin, vbegin) == cname) 
	{ 
        var vend = dcookie.indexOf (";", vbegin);
	if (vend == -1) vend = clen;
        return unescape(dcookie.substring(vbegin, vend));            
	}
        cbegin = dcookie.indexOf(" ", cbegin) + 1;
        if (cbegin == 0) break;}    
	return null;    
}

function checkCookie()
   {
   if ((getCookie("beenhere")==null) && (document.countpic.width > 1))
      { 
      var expdate = new Date ();
      expdate.setTime (expdate.getTime() + (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 * 365));
      setCookie("beenhere","1", expdate);
      pop();
      }
    } //cookie
function pop()
   {
   newRequest = open("","requestWindow","width=300,height=300");
   newRequest.location = "request.htm";
   } // pop()