Yahoo Maps ASP.NET Intranet App Example - asp.net

Does anyone know of any decent examples of using the royalty free yahoo maps functionality?
I can find lots of examples on google but in order to use google within an intranet they insist on your paying approximately £7k a year.
Any links greatly appreciated, ideally i'm thinking JQUERY plugin .js script and a sample ASP.NET page.
I'd like to display placeholders based on long and lat data in our database, on mouse-over the placeholders (or pins) i'd display additional information from the database, images, links etc
many thanks in advance
john

I found just the thing at -> http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/examples.html

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