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HTML

<body>
<form action="" method="post" id="SinglePmnt">
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>
             <select name="technology" class="select" id="singleTech">
              <option value="0" selected="selected">&nbsp;Please Select</option>
              <option value="Interactive Brokers">&nbsp;Interactive Brokers</option>
              <option value="MB Trading">&nbsp;MB Trading</option>
              <option value="Patsystems">&nbsp;Patsystems</option>
              <option value="PFG">&nbsp;PFG (Peregrine Financial)</option>
              <option value="TD AMERITRADE">&nbsp;TD AMERITRADE</option>
              <option value="Trading Technologies">&nbsp;Trading Technologies</option>
              <option value="Vision Financial Markets">&nbsp;Vision Financial Markets</option>
              <option value="Hosted">&nbsp;Zen-Fire</option>
             </select>
            </td>
            <td>Single Payment of $995</td>
            <td>
              <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="34">
              <input type="submit" class="orderNow" />
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</form>
</body>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {
            $.validator.addMethod(
                "SelectTechnology",
                function(value, element) {
                    //var selectedCountry = $('#Country').val();
                    if ($("#singleTech").val() === '0'){
                        return false;
                    } else return true;
                },
                "Please Select a Technology"
            );
            var validator = $("#SinglePmnt").validate({
                rules: {
                        technology: {
                            SelectTechnology: true
                        }
                },
                errorElement: "span",
               ...