, and a password must consist of at least 4 characters and include both letters and numbers.

  Does this mean that we need to change the passwords on our dummy/script data to include integers for all users?  The validator I wrote functions on both the login and student update pages.  If we don't need to change our dummy data i'll have to separate the validator classes.  

Do students need to update their password on the same screen that they update their major on (ie in the same form)?  

In particular, the password field cannot be empty (in fact, an empty password should be interpreted as the user not wanting to change password)

Can we use a validator error message for this or did you want some other action performed on a empty password field. Also, my validator isn&#39;t applied to login, but it is applied to the update screen (with all rules enforced);Is that okay?<

perfect I don't think I have enough time to write a jquery function to handle the alternative.