I have a MasterPage with multiple controls or webparts depending on what's happening.
Anyway i have a searchbox control with 2 textboxes. I use the
RequiredFieldValidator and a ValidatorCalloutExtender for each textbox. I have also implemented the TextBoxWatermarkExtender and AutoCompleteExtender from the ajaxtoolkit. I load this search control on every page. When i am using the search control, it works like a champ. However, some pages seem to activate the validation routines when i am not even using the search control. So, in order to post page i have to put some data in the search box. Any ideas?

Yes, in fact two.

Put the search button into a validation group that nobody uses.
And if a button can be pressed with no validation needed you have a property to tell it to not generate validation (sorry, mind went blank I don't recall the name..)...

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The property is CausesValidation. Set it to False and it will not cause the validators to fire. I prefer to have my validators inside of Validation Groups so as to avoid this problem but to each their own.

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