Patrons unable to make reservations after being granted an exception

Patrons are unable to create additional reservations during the same time frame as extended reservations (those that break rules regarding reservation length and number of equipment items).  In BMEC reservations:

Reservations # 249 and 250 are six-day reservations for the same equipment model.   These reservations required admin approval.  Patron attempted but failed to create reservation # 1108 herself for the standard three-day checkout and for a different equipment model.  It looks like equipment restrictions are extending past a single reservation?
This seems to bypass any validation errors without displaying them. They should probably be displayed in both cases, one with "Reservations created successfully, despite containing the following errors: " and the other with "Reservations filed as requests pending administrator approval, as they contain the following errors: "

It's not clear if this control flow doesn't obscure error *and* privilege case.