I still cannot get this to work properly

I have a form where I disply multiple line items from a query.

My prior code used #currenttrow# but someone suggest that I use a unique key identifier in the record, so now my code looks like this :

<tr>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText">
<cfinput type="text" name="conditionCode#gfmPartNumberID#" id="conditionCode" value="#conditionCode#" required="Yes" message="Condition Code must be entered.">
<input type="hidden" name="gfmPartNumberID" value="#qryView.gfmPartNumberID#">
</td>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText">
<cfinput type="text" name="materialNumber#gfmPartNumberID#" id="materialNumber" value="#materialNumber#" required="Yes" message="Material Number must be entered.">
<input type="hidden" name="gfmPartNumberID" value="#qryView.gfmPartNumberID#">
</td>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText">
<cfinput type="text" name="unitValue#gfmPartNumberID#" id="unitValue" value="#dollarformat(qryView.unitValue)#" required="Yes" validate="integer" message="Unit Value must be entered and must be numeric.">
<input type="hidden" name="gfmPartNumberID" value="#qryView.gfmPartNumberID#">
</td>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText">
<cfoutput group="serialNumberID"><cfinput type="text" id="serialNumber" name="serialNumber" value="#qryView.serialNumber#" required="Yes" message="Serial Number must be entered.">
<input type="hidden" name="serialNumberID" value="#qryView.serialNumberID#">

I still cannot get the validation to work. Since it is cfinput, I tried to used required, but nothing happens. Is that becuase the names are the same ? I thought the gfmPartNumberID would make each field unique ?

If cfinput requried will not work, can I validate with javascript ? If yes, how does the field name unitValue#gfmPartNumberID#" defined ? I usually have document.form.fieldname.value == 0.

I looked at my old code and it validates on the server side but the boss wants it on the client side. What do I do to solve this onece and for all ?

Thanks