function validatePassword(pw, options) {
	// default options (allows any password)
	var o = {
		lower:    0,
		upper:    0,
		alpha:    0, /* lower + upper */
		numeric:  0,
		special:  0,
		length:   [0, Infinity],
		custom:   [ /* regexes and/or functions */ ],
		badWords: [],
		badSequenceLength: 0,
		noQwertySequences: false,
		noSequential:      false
	};

	for (var property in options)
		o[property] = options[property];

	var	re = {
			lower:   /[a-z]/g,
			upper:   /[A-Z]/g,
			alpha:   /[A-Z]/gi,
			numeric: /[0-9]/g,
			special: /[\W_]/g
		},
		rule, i;

	// enforce min/max length
	if (pw.length < o.length[0] || pw.length > o.length[1])
		return false;

	// enforce lower/upper/alpha/numeric/special rules
	for (rule in re) {
		if ((pw.match(re[rule]) || []).length < o[rule])
			return false;
	}

	// enforce word ban (case insensitive)
	for (i = 0; i < o.badWords.length; i++) {
		if (pw.toLowerCase().indexOf(o.badWords[i].toLowerCase()) > -1)
			return false;
	}

	// enforce the no sequential, identical characters rule
	if (o.noSequential && /([\S\s])\1/.test(pw))
		return false;

	// enforce alphanumeric/qwerty sequence ban rules
	if (o.badSequenceLength) {
		var	lower   = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
			upper   = lower.toUpperCase(),
			numbers = "0123456789",
			qwerty  = "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm",
			start   = o.badSequenceLength - 1,
			seq     = "_" + pw.slice(0, start);
		for (i = start; i < pw.length; i++) {
			seq = seq.slice(1) + pw.charAt(i);
			if (
				lower.indexOf(seq)   > -1 ||
				upper.indexOf(seq)   > -1 ||
				numbers.indexOf(seq) > -1 ||
				(o.noQwertySequences && qwerty.indexOf(seq) > -1)
			) {
				return false;
			}
		}
	}

	// enforce custom regex/function rules
	for (i = 0; i < o.custom.length; i++) {
		rule = o.custom[i];
		if (rule instanceof RegExp) {
			if (!rule.test(pw))
				return false;
		} else if (rule instanceof Function) {
			if (!rule(pw))
				return false;
		}
	}

	// great success!
	return true;
}

function validateEmail(addr) {
	if (addr == '') return true;
	var invalidChars = '\/\'\\ ";:?!()[]\{\}^|';
	for (i=0; i<invalidChars.length; i++) {
	   if (addr.indexOf(invalidChars.charAt(i),0) > -1) {
		  return false;
	   }
	}
	for (i=0; i<addr.length; i++) {
	   if (addr.charCodeAt(i)>127) {
		  return false;
	   }
	}
	var atPos = addr.indexOf('@',0);
	if (atPos == -1) {
	   return false;
	}
	if (atPos == 0) {
	   return false;
	}
	if (addr.indexOf('@', atPos + 1) > - 1) {
	   return false;
	}
	if (addr.indexOf('.', atPos) == -1) {
	   return false;
	}
	if (addr.indexOf('@.',0) != -1) {
	   return false;
	}
	if (addr.indexOf('.@',0) != -1){
	   return false;
	}
	if (addr.indexOf('..',0) != -1) {
	   return false;
	}
	var suffix = addr.substring(addr.lastIndexOf('.')+1);
	if (suffix.length != 2 && suffix != 'com' && suffix != 'net' && suffix != 'org' && suffix != 'edu' && suffix != 'int' && suffix != 'mil' && suffix != 'gov' & suffix != 'arpa' && suffix != 'biz' && suffix != 'aero' && suffix != 'name' && suffix != 'coop' && suffix != 'info' && suffix != 'pro' && suffix != 'museum') {
	   return false;
	}
	return true;
}