function verifyForm() {
	k = document.forms("myform").elements;

	strRequired = k("required").value;
	arrRequired = strRequired.split(",");
	
	badstring = "";
	for (i=0;i<arrRequired.length;i++) {
	  testele = k(arrRequired[i]).value;
	  testele = testele.replace(/^\s+$/ig,"");
	  if (testele == "") {
	  	k(arrRequired[i]).value = testele;
	 	badstring = badstring + ", " + arrRequired[i].toLowerCase();
	  }
	}
	if (badstring != ""){
		badstring = badstring.substr(1, badstring.length - 1);
		alert("The following fields are required:\n" + badstring);
		return(false);
	}
	else {
		return(true);
	}
}