Need help adapting David Powers PHP email form script please!

Hi all,
I'm fairly inexperienced with PHP and I'm trying to adapt the David Powers email form script from THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DREAMWEAVER CS4 WITH CSS, AJAX, AND PHP.
I've created a basic form so that visitors to the site can request a telephone call back from the site owner. The form asks the visitor for their name, telephone number and to select a time of day suitable for the telephone call to be made using radio buttons selecting between morning and afternoon.
I'd like to achieve my goal with minimal validation error messages and would like to redirect to another page when a message is sent successfully. It is also important that in the spirit of the David Powers script I'm trying to work with, that it filters out suspect input, avoids email header injection attacks and blocks submission by spam bots.
There may be a really simple solution to this since I don't want users to be able to enter an email address at all but I don't know enough to be able to figure it out just yet.
I'd be grateful for any advice.
See below for the code for the form including PHP so far...
Thanks to everyone looking in in advance
Karl.

GEAtkins wrote:
> I am using the redirect to a personal page from page 515
of The Essential
> Guide to DWCS3 in the following form:
$_SESSION[MM_Username].php in the "if
> login succeeds" field.
Thank you for reminding me. There's a mistake in the book,
which I
discovered over the Christmas period, so forgot to send to
friends of ED
for the errata page.
Don't use $_SESSION[MM_Username]. Use $loginUsername instead.
It then works.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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