Well I solved it, but not really. I simply stuck saverec.php back in the action tag on the form line and voila. I am sure I did this before and the validation went to hell. I hate when things start working for no apparent reason. Great on one hand, but I see a similar problem in my future someday...
Thanx for the reply Alexandre. I looked at that example and am going to use it to try to AJAX this thing before it is saved... Owen