//this parses up the email to validate 
var testresults;
function checkEmail(f){
var email = f.email.value;
	//alert("hello");
	if (emailTest(email)){
	return true;
	}else{
	alert("Please input a valid email address!");
	f.email.focus();
	return false;
	}
}
function emailTest(email){
	var str=email
	var filter=/^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i
		if (filter.test(str)){
		testresults=true;
		}else{
		testresults=false;
		}
	return (testresults)
}