Validation popup conflicting with confirmation popup

Question

I am using 11gR1.
I have a form with three buttons on it CreateInsert, Next, Cancel.
The next button fires model layer validation on a new record, the cancel button opens a confirmation popup and if the user clicks yes, navigates the away from the form. When a user clicks next AND the form does not pass the model layer entity validation, a validation error is raise in a validation popup. The problem comes when the user then decides to not fix the validation, but instead cancel out of the form via the cancel button AFTER they have already clicked next.
When the user clicks the cancel button it raises the confirmation pop-up and whether the users clicks yes or no on the pop-up, the model layer validation still fires. I have immediate set to true on the cancel button to bypass validation, BUT if they user has already clicked next the validation still runs when they try to answer the pop-up. This results in the user being stuck in a never ending series of pop-ups because the confirmation pop-up can not close because the model layer validation keeps firing.
I have a dialoglistener on the dialog and a method in the backing bean (backingBeanScope.backing_IAEdit.cancelConfirmDialog) but that code never fires. Anyone else run across this problem or have any ideas how to resolve it?
Here is the code from the command buttons...
<af:commandButton actionListener="#{bindings.CreateInsert.execute}" text="CreateInsert"    disabled="#{!bindings.CreateInsert.enabled}"
                            id="cb5"/>
<af:commandButton actionListener="#{bindings.Next.execute}" text="Next" disabled="#{!bindings.Next.enabled}" partialSubmit="true"                    
                            id="cb2"/>
<af:commandButton text="Cancel"  id="cb4" action="Cancel" immediate="true">
                <af:showPopupBehavior popupId="p1"/>
</af:commandButton>
<af:popup id="p1">
              <af:dialog id="CancelConfirmDialog" title="Confirm Cancel"  type="yesNo"
                               dialogListener="#{backingBeanScope.backing_IAEdit.cancelConfirmDialog}">
                      <af:outputText value="Are you sure you would like to cancel?" id="CancelOutput"
                                     inlineStyle="font-weight:bold; font-size:small;"/>
              </af:dialog>
</af:popup>

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion, but the code in the dialoglistener never fires.
When the user clicks yes or no to dismiss the dialog box, the validation from the bc layer fires (even though immediate is set to true on the cancel button) and pops up an error box. When the error box opens, it opens in a modal way, the dialog box grays out and all you can do is dismiss the error box. When the user clicks ok to dismiss the error box, the dialog box is still open. Then when the user again clicks yes or no on the dialog box, it again fires validation and pops up the error box in a modal way. So now the user is stuck with these two pop ups and can never get rid of the dialog box.
Just to clarify, this ONLY happens if the user FIRST clicked the next button which triggered the bc layer validation. If the user just clicks the cancel button, everything works as expected with the dialog box popping up, the user selects yes or no, the dialoglistener code is run and the user is navigated to another page. If the user just clicks the cancel button validation is never run as is expected by having immedate set to true.