form submit button weirdness

[eluser]joeizang[/eluser]
Hey everyone,

I don't know why but a form I made just won't submit. the form is built using the form helper and look alright but the submit button just won't submit. using jquery, I realized that the button was receiving a click even but not submitting. I am using phil sturgeons template library, ion_auth and firebug. everything else is standard CI with form helper autoloaded. Here is the form generating code from the view:

Code:

<?php
$info = array('id'=>'updateuserform');
form_open('members/users/update_curr_user',$info);

$data5 = array('name'=>'username','id'=>'username','value'=>$uservar['username']);
echo 'Username  :'.form_input($data5);

$data6 = array('name'=>'email','id'=>'email','value'=>$uservar['email']);
echo 'Email Address :'.form_input($data6);

$phone1 = array('name'=>'phone','id'=>'phone','value'=>$uservar['phone']);
echo 'Your phone number formatted like so: 0802-331-5544'.form_input($phone1);

switch ($uservar['active']):
    case 0:
        $data7 = array(
            'name'=>'status',
            'id'=>  'status',
            'value' =>'Deactivated'
        );
        echo 'Status : Active or Deactivated'.form_input($data7);
        break;
    case 1:
        $data8 = array(
            'name' =>'status',
            'id'   =>'status',
            'value'=>'active'
        );
        echo 'Status :Active or Deactivated'.form_input($data8);
        break;
endswitch;

$group1 = array('name'=>'group','id'=>'group','value'=>$uservar['group']);
echo 'Group :'.form_dropdown('group',$groups).'<br />';
echo '<br /><br />';

$data9 = 'id="updateuser"';
echo form_submit('submit','Update User',$data9);
?&gt;


    &lt;?php echo form_close();?&gt;

Please any help? I have been looking at this for like 4 hours and I don't see what is wrong. If more code is needed I can paste some.