I've just been trying out the Validation plugin, and in the jquery.validate.js file I found a mix of jQuery.foo and $.foo statements. I'm thinking of using this in a WordPress admin page, which already includes jQuery 1.2.3 and uses it in the form jQuery(), probably because it also uses other frameworks. So I get errors when Firefox encounters the $() calls... and the easy way out was to edit the jquery.validate.js file.
Is the validate code inconsistent, or should I be creating some kind of alias to work around it? I hesitate to do so, it may cause conflicts with other WordPress plugins or base features. (I get no errors after I change the calls, there are only a few $. or $ () references in the file... but I haven't seen this issue with other jQuery libraries) Roger