function showError(err) {
	$("#reg_error").removeClass("hidden_elem").html(err);
		$("#fdata").data("hasError",false);
		$("#sbutton").attr("disabled","");
		return(false);
}

function checkEmail(email) {
	var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
	if (!filter.test(email)) {
		return false;
	}
	return true;
}

function isValidEmail(strEmail){
				//validRegExp = /^[^@]+@[^@]+.[a-z]{2,}$/i;
				var validRegExp   = /^([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.])+\@([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.])+\.([A-Za-z]{2,4})$/;
				if (strEmail.search(validRegExp) == -1) {
				  return false;
				}
				return true;
}

function setHomepage(url) {
 if (document.all) {
        document.body.style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';
  	document.body.setHomePage(url);
 
 } else if (window.sidebar) {
    if(window.netscape) {
         try {  
            netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");  
         }  catch(e)  {  
    alert("Your browser doesn't allow setting of homepages via script. Please enter about:config in your address line and change the value of signed.applets.codebase_principal_support to true.  Or go to the Tools->Options menu and set it directly.");  
         }
    } 
    var prefs = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1'].getService(Components. interfaces.nsIPrefBranch);
    prefs.setCharPref('browser.startup.homepage',url);
 }
}