function getVals() 
{
 var infoPassed = location.search;
 infoPassed = infoPassed.replace(/\+/g," ");
 infoPassed = unescape(infoPassed);
 infoPassed = infoPassed.replace(/\?/,"");

 var dataPairArray = infoPassed.split(/&|=/);
 var extractedData = new Array();

 for (var arrayIndex = 0; arrayIndex < dataPairArray.length; arrayIndex++)
 {
   extractedData[dataPairArray[arrayIndex]] = dataPairArray[++arrayIndex];
 }

 return extractedData;

}