QuickForm + Smarty + JavaScript + IE validation problems

I've been building projects with the following technologies QuickForm Smarty Templating I've run into a couple of problems recently where if I turn on client side validation certain things break. For example, in safari, i I had client side validation on for a totally unrelated element the image upload element wouldn't work. BUT if I created the quickform object outside of a Smarty template system everything worked fine. Today I had a problem where IE thought that every email address entered in was an invalid email but I turned off client and it worked fine. In firefox the client side validation worked great. I'm sorry I don't have any code Im not even sure what to include besides all of the files. I'm sure its something Im doing but I was hoping someone might've run into a similiar problem or had an idea why this might happen. For the most part we are dumping the form like so: $html = $form->toHtml(); $tpl->assign( 'body', $html ); $tpl->display( 'page.tpl;); If you can think of anything specific youd like to see I can post it. Sorry its sorta of vague, Im not really sure where to start. Thanks, Mark