How did I miss these? For so long, it's never really been an issue to me whether or not W3C checks out or not. It has also rarely been a problem with my surfers. Can someone explain to me why these types of validations are important for anything other than complying with an agreed standard, and if so what the importance of that is?

As is stands now, as a visitor to a website, I only concern myself with what does and doesn't work. I hardly check sites against Bobby or W3C.

Maybe I'm just missing the point here?

Be glad to hear back and be set straight if need be.

-J