if (document.images) 
{
   img1 = new Image();
   img2 = new Image();
   img3 = new Image();
   img4 = new Image();
   img5 = new Image();
   img6 = new Image();
   img7 = new Image();
   img8 = new Image();
   
   img1.src = "../images/homeIcon.gif"
   img2.src = "../images/individIcon.gif"
   img3.src = "../images/globeIcon.gif"
   img4.src = "../images/pageShadow2.jpg"
   img5.src = "../images/grayLineLanguage.jpg"
   img6.src = "../images/pageShadow.jpg";
   img7.src = "../images/languageContentBottomShadow.jpg"
   img8.src = "../images/languageContentTop.jpg"
   
}

function bodyOnLoadSelection() {
getDate();
document.getElementById('blenddiv').className="rotateImgDivNoPic";
runSlideShow();
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("title.xml");
document.getElementById('languageTitle').innerHTML = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
document.title = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
bodyOnLoadFamilyList();
}
<!-- Begin
// Set slideShowSpeed (milliseconds)
var slideShowSpeed = 6000;
// Duration of crossfade (milliseconds)
var crossFadeDuration = 900;
// Specify the image files
var Pic = new Array();
// to add more images, just continue
// the pattern, adding to the array below

var picID=0;
var picNum = 1;
var maxPics = 252;

while (picNum <= maxPics)
{
	Pic[picID] = '../images/rotateImg' + picNum + '.jpg';
	picID++;
	picNum++;
}


// do not edit anything below this line
var t;
var j = 0;
var p = Pic.length;

function runSlideShow() {
	
 var choose_one= get_random(maxPics);  
  choose_one--;
  
blendimage('blenddiv','blendimage', Pic[choose_one],crossFadeDuration);
j = j + 1;
if (j > (p - 1)) j = 0;
t = setTimeout('runSlideShow()', slideShowSpeed);
}
//  End -->

function bodyOnLoadFamilyList() {
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("familyListMenu.xml");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option");
var dropDownMenu;				   
dropDownMenu = 	"<form>" + 	"<select class=\"selectBranchDropDown\" name=\"jumpMenu\" id=\"jumpMenu\" onchange=\"MM_jumpMenu('top',this,1)\">";
dropDownMenu += "<option value=\"1\">Choose a language family/branch</option>";

for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
	if ( xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("parent")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue == "none")
	{
		dropDownMenu += "<option value=\"" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("location")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue + "\">";
		dropDownMenu += xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
		dropDownMenu += "</option>";
	}
	else
	{
		dropDownMenu += "<option value=\"" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("location")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue + "\">";
		dropDownMenu += "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
		dropDownMenu += "</option>";
	}
}

dropDownMenu += "</select></form>";
document.getElementById('familyListDropDown').innerHTML = dropDownMenu;

var maxColumns = 2;
var currentColumn=1;			   
var languageListTable = "<table class=\"languageListTable\">";
languageListTable +="<tr>";

actualRows = x.length-1;

var rows = Math.ceil(actualRows / maxColumns);
var rowCounter = 0;
var i = 0;
var lastColumn;
lastColumn = x.length - rows;

while (i < x.length)
{

		if (currentColumn <= maxColumns)
		{
			if (i < lastColumn)
				languageListTable += "<td>";
			else
				languageListTable += "<th>";
		}
			
			while ((rowCounter < rows) && (i < x.length))
			{
				if ( xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("parent")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue == "none")
	{
		languageListTable += "<a href=\"" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("location")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue + "\" target=\"_top\">";
		languageListTable += "<div id=\"" + i + "\" class=\"languageListTableDiv\" onmouseover=\"mouseOver(" + i +")\" onmouseout=\"mouseOut(" + i +")\">";
		languageListTable += xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
		languageListTable += "</div></a><br />";	
	}
	else
	{
		languageListTable += "<a href=\"" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("location")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue + "\" target=\"_top\">";
		languageListTable += "<div id=\"" + i + "\" class=\"languageListTableDiv\" onmouseover=\"mouseOver(" + i +")\" onmouseout=\"mouseOut(" + i +")\">";
		languageListTable += "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
		languageListTable += "</div></a><br />";
	}	
				rowCounter++;
				i++;
			}
			rowCounter=0;

		if (currentColumn <= maxColumns)
		{
			if (i <= lastColumn)
				languageListTable += "</td>";
			currentColumn++;
		}
}
languageListTable += "</th>";	
languageListTable +="</tr>";
languageListTable += "</table>";

document.getElementById('languageFamilyComplete').innerHTML = languageListTable;

var featuredLanguage = get_random(x.length); 
featuredLanguage--;
var location = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("location")[featuredLanguage].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
var title = "<a class=\"sectionTitleFront\" href=\"" + location +"\" target=\"_top\">";
title += xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option")[featuredLanguage].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
title += "</a>";

var featuredPicture = "<img src=\"" + location;
featuredPicture += "/images/mainImgFeatured.jpg\" height=\"176\" width=\"232\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" class=\"featuredPicture\" alt=\"featured family\">";
var more = "...<a href=\"" + location +"\" target=\"_top\">more</a>";
more += "<a href=\"" + location +"\" target=\"_top\">";
more += "<img src=\"../images/more.gif\" alt=\"more\" align=\"top\" class=\"more\" hspace=\"5\"/></a>";
description = loadXMLDoc(location +"/title.xml");
document.getElementById('featuredFamilyTitle').innerHTML = "Featured Family - " + title;
document.getElementById('featuredDescription').innerHTML = featuredPicture + description.getElementsByTagName("description")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue+ more;


}