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[eluser]boltsabre[/eluser]
On a side note about Google Translate and SEO... if you use it, you should block ALL translated pages from the google search engine bot, you DO NOT want auto-translated pages indexed, you'll suffer in the rankings.

Why? It's to stop people from:
1. translating their entire site into every available language, which would be a huge drain on googles resources if, for example, there where 1+ billion websites (and constantly growing) translating into 200+ different languages!
2. Google knows its auto translator is just that, crappy to say the least. It only wants to index high quality pages (regardless of the language).

So while it's fine to use it to provide a service to your customer base, make sure those pages are not indexed by google :-)