Although this is true, if the application is well built it shouldn't matter, you should still be able to submit the form and have the validation done server side, any client-side validation done in javascript should be repeated on the server, since you can't trust the client to validate it's own input.

agreed jasonk, and attribute this to my lack of experience with the module, but I was just assuming (and we all know what assuming leads to) that the javascript was the perpetrator. maybe there's something before the button that's causing some undesired performance?

meh.