function loadAJAX(div_id,url,vars) {
  var d = new Date();
  var url=url+"?"+vars+"&d="+ d.getDate() + d.getHours() + d.getMinutes() + d.getMilliseconds();;
	//alert(url);
	var http_request = false;

  if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
    http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
      http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
      // See note below about this line
    }
  } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
    try {
      http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
    } catch (e) {
      try {
        http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
      } catch (e) {}
    }
  }

  if (!http_request) {
    displayNoAjax(div_id,url);
		//alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
    return false;
  }
  http_request.onreadystatechange = function() { displayResult(http_request,div_id); };
  http_request.open('GET', url, true);
  http_request.send(null);
}

function displayResult(http_request,div_id) { 
  try {
	  document.getElementById(div_id).innerHTML="<div class='body_featured' style='height:300px;text-align:center;'><p style='margin-top:140px;'>Loading...<br /><img src='/images/ajax_loading.gif' alt='' /></p></div>"
		if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
      if (http_request.status == 200) {
				var div = document.getElementById(div_id);
				div.innerHTML=http_request.responseText;
				execJS(div);
      } else {
        alert('There was a problem with the request.'+http_request.status);
      }
    } else {
		  
		}
	}
  catch( e ) {
    //alert('Caught Exception: ' + e.description);
  }
}

function displayNoAjax(div_id) {
  document.getElementById(div_id).innerHTML = "<!-- #include virtual=\"/includes/ajax_frontpage.asp?cat=topstories\" -->"

}

function execJS(node) {
  var bSaf = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') != -1);
  var bOpera = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera') != -1);
  var bMoz = (navigator.appName == 'Netscape');
  
	var st = node.getElementsByTagName('script');
  var strExec;

	for(var i=0;i<st.length; i++) {
    if (bSaf) {
      strExec = st[i].innerHTML;
    } else if (bOpera) {
      strExec = st[i].text;
    } else if (bMoz) {
      strExec = st[i].textContent;
      //document.write(strExec);
		} else {
      strExec = st[i].text;
    }
		
		try {
      eval(strExec);
    } catch(e) {
      alert(e);
    }
  }
}