Problems with Cold Fusion Forms

Hey Everybody -
Pretty new to these forums and cold fusion in general. I
created a number of forms in cold fusion for a school. They sign up
for classes and when they fill out ALL text fields they
successfully submit the form and they see a success page. Sounds
great right? well kind of.
If a user doesnt fill out the entire form, and submits it
gives them an error with coldfusion errors. So I am faced with a
few choices. I can either: have the form forward them to an error
page instead of the coldfusion error, or if there's a way I can
fill in the null values so that there isnt a problem with nulls. I
want to have validation but I want it in a seperate page since I
dont have the room to add errors in the form itself.
Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

I always do ALL my form validations with a client-side JS
**and** with server-side CF.
I don't use <cfform>, I know <cfform> is
dependant on the java version the user has installed on their end.
I know I came across quite a few issues where on one machine the
<cfform> worked fine, and on another it konked out.
Anways, this is one of my most basic forms:
=============================================
PAGE1.cfm
<html>
<head>
<script>
function validate() {
var IA = document.ContactUs;
var errorMSG = "";
if(IA.FullName.value == "") {errorMSG += "Full Name\n";}
if(IA.Email.value == "") {errorMSG += "Email\n";}
if(errorMSG != "") {
alert("The following fields are required:\n\n" + errorMSG);
return false;
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="ContactUs" action="page1_x.cfm" method="post"
onSubmit="return validate();">
<table>
<tr>
<td align="right">Name: </td>
<td align="left"><input type="text" name="FullName"
maxlength="50" size="25"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Email Address: </td>
<td align="left"><input type="text" name="Email"
maxlength="50" size="25"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Comments: </td>
<td align="left"><textarea name="Comments"
cols="20" rows="5" id="comments"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<input type="submit" name="SubmitContact"
value="Submit">
<input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
=============================================
=============================================
page1_x.cfm
<cfif isdefined("FORM.SubmitContact") and FORM.FullName
NEQ "" and FORM.Email NEQ "">

<cfelse>

<cflocation url="page1.cfm?status=1" addtoken="no">
</cfif>
=============================================
Now, there is sooooo much more you can here for a full blown
error-proof script. You can also check if the e-mail is a valid
e-mail (server side), and if the field is a numeric field (like zip
code, phone number, etc) then check if that field is valid, etc.
This is just a run-of-mill simple form and validation
submission using both client-side JS and server-side code.

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