	  // this if-else statement checks to see if the browser is Netscape 4
	  if (document.layers)
	  {
	  		// this section will display a single image with no rotating. -- Netscap 4 compatible
			document.write('<img src="images/index-picture01.jpg" border="0" alt="Students of professor Mark Kuzyk, department of physics, learn from a thinker whose work on the fundamental theoretical limit is driving new research around the world." />');
		}
		else
		{
			// this section will randomly swap out the promo image and the background gradient -- all other browsers IE4+ and Netscap 6+
		var thedate = new Date()
		todaysDate = thedate.getDate()
		imageCount = 4 // this needs to be current with the number of images that are being rotated
		
		imageToShow  = todaysDate % imageCount // get the remainder of the date and the number of images to decide them image to show

			switch(imageToShow)
			{
			case 0: 
				document.write('<img src="images/index-picture01.jpg" border="0" alt="Students of professor Mark Kuzyk, department of physics, learn from a thinker whose work on the fundamental theoretical limit is driving new research around the world."/>');
				break
			case 1: 
				document.write('<img src="images/home-image-honors.jpg" border="0" alt="Jessica Cassleman, Assistant Dean of the Honors College, teaches Honors seminar courses on Latin American Culture, and Politics and Ethics in Sports." />');
				break
			case 2: 
				document.write('<img src="images/home-image-kidwell.jpg" border="0" alt=" Dr. Kimberlee (Kim) Kidwell, Associate Professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, received the 2003 Young Scientist of the Year Award." />');
				break
			case 3: 
				document.write('<img src="images/home-image-mage.jpg" border="0" alt="Jeanette Mageo, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, author of 14 articles and 3 books on cultural psychology, cultural history, religion, as well as sex and gender in the Pacific." />');
				break
			}
		}

			
			