function flashhomebanner()
{
  var oeTags = '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'
    + 'width="640" height="301" class="flash"'
    + 'codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab">'
    + '<param name="movie" value="flash/flash.swf" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="scale" value="noborder" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#8f8f81" />'
    + '<embed src="flash/flash.swf" class="flash" menu="false" quality="best" scale="noborder" bgcolor="#8f8f81" '
    + 'width="640" height="301" name="flash" align="middle"'
    + 'play="true"'
    + 'loop="false"'
    + 'quality="high"'
    + 'allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"'
    + 'type="application/x-shockwave-flash"'
    + 'pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">'
    + '<\/embed>'
    + '<\/object>';
    document.write(oeTags);   // embed the flash movie
}