IMA NEWBIE - JS Form Validation Problem

For some reason my form is letting blank email addresses slip by. It will validate them if they're input incorrectly, but does nothing if the string is <2 characters.

I have 1% idea what I'm doing with JS..please help me gently. =)

Code:

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function test(src)
{
        var emailReg = "^[\\w-_'\.]*[\\w-_'\.]\@[\\]\.+[\\w-_]+[\\w]$";
        var regex = new RegExp(emailReg);
        return regex.test(src);
}

function validate() {
        var i=0;
        var errcolour='#CC3300';
        var msg='The following fields did not pass validation:\n\n';

        if(document.guestbook.EMAIL.value.length >1)
        {
                emailValid = test(document.guestbook.EMAIL.value);
                if(emailValid == false)
                {
                        ++i;
                        msg += "Your E-mail address is not valid.\n";               
                        document.guestbook.EMAIL.style.background=errcolour;
                        document.guestbook.EMAIL.style.color='#FFFFFF';               
                }else{
                        document.guestbook.EMAIL.style.background='#FFFFFF';
                        document.guestbook.EMAIL.style.color='';                               
                }
        }
if(document.guestbook.EMAIL.value.length <2)
        {
                ++i;
                msg += 'You must supply a valid email address\n';
                document.guestbook.EMAIL.style.background=errcolour;
                document.guestbook.EMAIL.style.color='#FFFFFF';               
        }else{
                document.guestbook.EMAIL.style.background='#FFFFFF';
                document.guestbook.EMAIL.style.color='';                               
        }

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....there is more to this code, but nothing pertaining the problem ( I don't think!)

Thanks!

I figured it out--just had to flip-flop the two if/else statements.