I'm only going to give the CAPTCHA field another try for another day or two, I am finding that it is too much trouble...
I discovered that the special new captcha field in v. 2.6 does not work as advertised, and in going back to the DNN captcha, I cannot figure out why its error message does not display at the top with the other error messages.
I went back and turned off client-side validation, using only server-side validation.
Hence I think the captcha error message display I was seeing is perhaps an issue in the client-side code....
What happened was that all my error messages appeared at the top, they were not formatted the same as the client-side error messages (much uglier), and all my text boxes were colored red, and the entire form displays differently in FF 2.x vs. IE 7.x.
I'm disappointed with this module -- support has done their best to be helpful, but the way it's put together requires an incredible amount of work, much more than it should be IMHO to get it to work consistently and nicely...
The captcha error message repeats itself UNDER the captcha image and text field, of all places...
Perhaps other people don't have all the issues I have had with this module, and I am happy for them....
Thank you, Tom