I'm just starting to pick up jQuery and am finding it a very useful tool in my web design belt but it's proving a little more tricky than I'd hoped. I'm building a fairly basic contact form that uses ASP to complete the send. I am hoping to use the jQuery validation plugin to perform some basic client-side validation to make sure that everyone enters at the very least a name, a valid email and a message. Once those things have been validated I then want the form to be sent using AJAX. I've got the basic code written but it seems to be ignoring the validation. I have attached the validation and sending section of my jQuery below. Can anyone see where I am going wrong? TIA

2. //@Additions by EJS - jQuery + ASP email
3. //AJAX Sending of ASP
4. //+ Basic Validation
5. 
   
6. function showRequest() {
7.     jQuery("#contactForm").validate({
8.         //set the rules for the field names
9.         rules: {
10.             name: {
11.                 required: true,
12.                 minlength: 2
13.             },
14.             mememail: {
15.                 required: true,
16.                 email: true
17.             },
18.             message: {
19.                 required: true,
20.                 minlength: 2
21.             }
22.         }
23.     });
24. }
25. 
    
26. function showResponse() {
27.     alert('Thanks for your comment squire!'); 
28.     disablePopup();
29. }
30. 
    
31. $(document).ready(function() { 
32.         var options = { 
33.                 target:        '#errormessage',   // target element(s) to be updated with server response 
34.                 beforeSubmit:  showRequest,  // pre-submit callback 
35.                 success:       showResponse  // post-submit callback 
36.         }; 
37. 
    
38. // bind form using 'ajaxForm' 
39.         $('form#contactform').ajaxForm(options); 
40. });