Validator not validating v. 1.2.4

[Jin Bal]

Hi Guys

My validator config seems to be incorrect somewhere but I'm stumped as to what it is.  
The symptoms are that the validator succeeds in all validations no matter what i enter 
(or don't enter) in the form I am using an extension of ValidatorActionForm to use the 
path attribute in the struts-config

Here are my config snippets- can anybody see a config error?

struts conf:

    <action input="passwordReminder" name="passwordReminderForm" 
path="/PasswordReminder" scope="request"                                               
                                    type="com.buyacar.actions.ForgottenPasswordAction" 
validate="true" >
      <forward name="passwordReminderConfirmation" path="passwordReminderConfLayout" />
    </action>

plugin:

  <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
    <set-property property="pathnames" 
value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml" />
  </plug-in>

validation.xml
....
    <formset >
        <form name="/PasswordReminder" >
            <field property="emailAddress" depends="required">
                    <arg0 key="PasswordReminder.email"/>
            </field>
        </form>
   </formset>

</form-validation>

the form bean looks like:

public class PasswordReminderForm extends ValidatorActionForm {
    public PasswordReminderForm() {
    }
    private String emailAddress;
    public String getEmailAddress() {
        return emailAddress;
    }
    public void setEmailAddress(String emailAddress) {
        this.emailAddress = emailAddress;
    }
}

all input is appreciated

TIA
Jin