Question about Attributes

[dwsmithab]

I am new to Zencart and have tried searching the forum for this help before posting. I am selling products that require the customer to input several text fields and upload a picture when buying a product. I have figured out how to setup the attributes and they work fine with one exception. I have set them to required but the customer is able to add to cart without completing any of the text/upload fields. I have followed a couple of threads dealing with setting up a default that they cannot choose but this either doesnt work for text fields or I really do not understand what I am doing. In the attributes screen, I have said they are required. I am not sure how to proceed. All of the attributes are either text or file upload so I do not know how I can set a default. Any help sure would be appreciated.

Wayne Smith
Team Sports Photography

[dwsmithab]

I should add that this was a clean install of 1.5. I have added a couple of mods, shipping, database backup, facebook like...

I did not test this before the mods so I do not know if I broke it or it never worked. I have pretty much tried everything I could find in the forum, but if it is a cmplex sql issue, it is just out of my league.
Thanks for anyone who can offer any assistance