How do you make an image hyperlink in js?

I have a webpage that currently links to another website through an image with the example code:

<a href="http://www.website" target="_blank"><img border="2" src="images/example.jpg" alt="example"></a>


My question is this:

How can I make it so that when the user moves the mouse over the image it displays the website address in the status bar *and* when they actually click the image, it goes to the intended website. Basically, everything it would do with the existing HREF tag.

I want to do this to keep the existing link but to stop any Google PR leakage.

Regards, Steve

I think that is what you are after, but there should be a better way of doing it. You don't want google to find out the link? Why not have it in a logged in area? Then googlebot won't be able to see it. Javascript isn't really ideal for this sort of thing, and googlebot may be able to follow the link anyway.

OK that's great help thanks ..

How do you make it so that the 'hand' appears on mouseover ... as opposed to the default arrow?

This isn't just for Google purposes, it's actually mainly to just look like a normal href link to the human eye.

Steve