[BirdOPrey5]

We were on the right track but the trouble was the code I posted only worked in Chrome... It needed a little editing to work in Firefox and IE-

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That code works great in IE9, FF, and Chrome, and I would think all other browsers.

Should just have an option for people who are visiting without javascript enabled.