[eluser]Judgestar[/eluser]
Thank you for the reply. I did not realize I was sending the form_open to the wrong controller. I made that one change and now I am able to see the validation rules are working

Now I am seeing where the rest of my code needs fixing.
As far as repopulating the values and adding validation error code, I have not gotten to that part yet. I will be continuing now with the code because the validation issue was halting my progress. Thank you so much for the tips. I will post an update once I get it fixed and/or if I need additional assistance.