Password Validation/Confirmation

Question

I've tried several ways to go about doing this, but I keep running into snags one place or another.
I have a CF 8 Flash form.  On this part of the page I'm making a form for them to request setting up an e-mail account.  In it's current form, the form does not load at all, this happened when I put the onClick into the submit button.  It has also previously happened when I tried an onsubmit in the cfform tag.  I hardly know anything about Javascript, and have been trying to piece together examples from out on the internet to get this to do what I need it to do. (Check password for 8 characters, must have special character/number, must input same password twice on the page).  I apparently can't use Spry because I'm locked in to having to use a flash form.
It's current form would meet all but the special character requirement, but as I said before, the form comes up completely blank at the moment, almost just like it does if you forget to name a field.  Can anyone shed some light into this behavior?
Here's the code, this particular form is just one in a tabbed page.
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    function checkPassword() {
      var strng  = document.emailSetup.mailPass.value;
      var strng2 = document.emailSetup.confirmPass.value;
      var errMsg = "";
      if (strng == "") {
            errMsg = "Enter a password.\n";
      if ((strng.length < 8) || (strng.length > 100)) {
            errMsg += "The password is the wrong length\n";
      if (!/[0-9]/.test(strng) || !/[a-zA-Z]/.test(strng)) {
            errMsg += "The password must contain at least one letter and one numeral.\n";
      if(strng!=strng2)
            errMsg += "Your passwords do not match!\n";
      if(errMsg==''){
            return true;
      } else {
            alert(errMsg);
            return false;
return false;
</script>
    <cflayoutarea title="Set up New E-mail" overflow="hidden">
        <cfform format="flash" name="emailSetup" timeout="300" skin="haloblue" action="emailAction.cfm">
            <cfformgroup type="panel" label="ADSS Helpdesk" height="390" style="text-align:left; color:##000000; font-size:12;">
                <cfinput type="text" name="empName" label="New Employee's Name" width="250" required="yes">
                   <cfselect name="agencyID" width="150" label="Agency:">
                    <cfoutput query="agencyFetch">
                           <option value="#agencyID#">#agency#</option>
                       </cfoutput>
                </cfselect>
                <cfinput type="password" name="mailPass" width="100" label="Desired Password" required="yes">
                <cfinput type="password" name="confirmPass" width="100" label="Confirm Password" required="yes">               
                <cfselect name="capacity" label="Mailbox Capacity:" width="150">
                    <option value="250">250 MB ($6.50)</option>
                    <option value="500">500 MB ($12.00)</option>
                    <option value="1500">1500 MB ($25.00)</option>
                </cfselect>
                <cfformgroup type="horizontal" label="Requester's Name">
                    <cfinput type="text" name="reqFName" width="100" required="yes">
                    <cfinput type="text" name="reqLName" width="100" required="yes">
                </cfformgroup>
                <cfinput type="text" name="reqEmail" label=" Requester's Email:" width="300" bind="{reqFName.text.toLowerCase()}.{reqLName.text.toLowerCase()}@adss.alabama.gov" required="yes">           
                <cfinput type="submit" name="mailSubmit" value="Request Email Address" onClick="checkPassword()">                               
               </cfformgroup>
        </cfform>
    </cflayoutarea>

Answer 1

Well, I've made a little progress I believe, I'm almost there, just some syntax problems now I think.  I modified a Password Strength checker I found to try and bend it to my purposes, and have tried to add it in the cfformitem="script"  I'm not quite sure how it's supposed to work yet with nothing that just comes out and says function() to call, but that's something the actionscript boys will hopefully be able to help me with.
Here's the code as it is now.
    <cflayoutarea title="Set up New E-mail" overflow="hidden">
        <cfform format="flash" name="emailSetup" timeout="300" skin="haloblue" action="emailAction.cfm" onsubmit="passwordChecker">
            <cfformgroup type="panel" label="ADSS Helpdesk" height="390" style="text-align:left; color:##000000; font-size:12;">
                <cfinput type="text" name="empName" label="New Employee's Name" width="250" required="yes">
                   <cfselect name="agencyID" width="150" label="Agency:">
                    <cfoutput query="agencyFetch">
                           <option value="#agencyID#">#agency#</option>
                       </cfoutput>
                </cfselect>
        <cfformitem type="script">
            package passwordChecker
             public class passwordStrength
                private static var _strength : Number = 0;
                private static var _regAlpha : RegExp = new RegExp( /([a-Z]+)/ );
                private static var _regLength : RegExp = new RegExp( /(?=^.{8,}$)/);
                private static var _regNum    : RegExp = new RegExp( /([0-9]+)/ );
                private static var _regSpecial : RegExp = new RegExp( /(\W+)/ );
               public static function checkStrength( mailPass : String ) : Number
                        _strength = 0;
                        if( mailPass.search( _regAlpha ) != -1 )
                            _strength ++;
                        if( mailPass.search( _regLength ) != -1 )
                            _strength ++;
                        if( mailPass.search( _regNum ) != -1 )
                            _strength ++;
                        if( mailPass.search( _regSpecial ) != -1 )
                            _strength ++;
                        if _strength < 4
                        alert('Passwords does not meet requirements');
                    if(mailPass.text != confirmPass.text)
                        alert('Passwords do not match');
                    return false;       
            </cfformitem>               
                <cfinput type="text" name="mailPass" width="100" label="Desired Password" required="yes">
                <cfinput type="text" name="confirmPass" width="100" label="Confirm Password" required="yes">               
                <cfselect name="capacity" label="Mailbox Capacity:" width="150">
                    <option value="250">250 MB ($6.50)</option>
                    <option value="500">500 MB ($12.00)</option>
                    <option value="1500">1500 MB ($25.00)</option>
                </cfselect>
                <cfformgroup type="horizontal" label="Requester's Name">
                    <cfinput type="text" name="reqFName" width="100" required="yes">
                    <cfinput type="text" name="reqLName" width="100" required="yes">
                </cfformgroup>
                <cfinput type="text" name="reqEmail" label=" Requester's Email:" width="300" bind="{reqFName.text.toLowerCase()}.{reqLName.text.toLowerCase()}@adss.alabama.gov" required="yes">           
                <cfinput type="submit" name="mailSubmit" value="Request Email Address">                               
               </cfformgroup>
        </cfform>
    </cflayoutarea>