The validation wants me to format like: YYYY-mm-dd, just as the documentation says. I changed the general settings, as you mentioned, to the order that I would like: m/d/Y and the form validation still says, "Date format seems invalid.", when entering something like 05/21/2011 (or 05-21-2011).
This is my form shortcode now: [date* student-dob]
Any ideas or additional steps?
Thanks in advance!