What's with the crusade against all of these sites? ....

As you posted above, you helped them out by advising their validation flaws and it is quite obviously an innocent error. Is there really a need to bring defame them in this public arena?

I understand your dislike of such sites not validting but can you not deal with the site operators directly rather than slander them here at Webforumz.

I for one am not interested in what sites in the world validate -- you could spend the rest of your life finding these websites because the XHTML valid logo is used very casually across the web..If someone asks me to critique their site and such a problem is seen I will advise and suggest they fix it quick smart but I would not go out of my way to "Validate the Web"...