HTML Form Not Submitting on Chrome OSX

One of my Beta testers complained that the filters on my search page were not working. Apparently, the form was not appending the GET parameters to the URL.

http://nabshack.com/search/

I'm working locally on a PC but I tested this issue on a MAC 开发者_运维技巧and it worked for me. No other users have complained about this problem and that group includes Chrome OSX users.

I validated my markup and it's FULL of warnings and errors. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=nabshack.com%2Fsearch%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Most of the errors are from including HTML within my javascript tags and the warnings are largely due to unescaped characters like "&" and "=" in the javascript.

Does my error sound like it's due to the markup issues? Can I (and do I have to) escape those characters in my javascript?