Textarea not sumitted to form

I am using CKEditor for JQuery, and the value is not being passed to the form onsubmit.

My form:

    <form id="venueForm" action="include/transport.php?form=venueForm" method="post" name="venueForm">
      <table width="100%"><tr>
        <td width="50%">
          <div align="center">
            Description 1<br />
            <textarea name="vDesc1"  tabindex=25 class="vDesc1_ckeditor" id="vDesc1" rows="4" cols="80"><?php echo $vMore; ?></textarea></div>
        </td>
        <td width="50%">
          <div align="center">
          Description 2<br />
          <textarea name="vDesc2" tabindex=26 class="vDesc2_ckeditor" id="vDesc2" rows="4" cols="80"><?php echo $vMore2; ?></textarea></div>
        </td>
      </tr></table>
    </form>

My function to submit:

// FUNCTION TO SUBMIT
   function submitVenueForm() {
      // TO PASS THE CKEDITOR INSTANCES......
        CKEDITOR.instances.vDesc1.updateElement();
       CKEDITOR.instances.vDesc2.updateElement();
      /* THIS DID NOT WORK either
      for ( instance in CKEDITOR.instances )
         CKEDITOR.instances[instance].updateElement();
      */
      document.venueForm.submit();
   }

..and the CKEditor function:

$(function() {
      if (CKEDITOR.instances.vDesc1) CKEDITOR.instances.vDesc1.destroy();
      if (CKEDITOR.instances.vDesc2) CKEDITOR.instances.vDesc2.destroy();
   
      var config = {
         toolbar:
         [
            ['Bold', 'Italic', 'Underline', '-', 'NumberedList', 'BulletedList', '-', 'Link', 'Unlink', '-', 'Outdent','Indent', '-', 'JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
            ['UIColor']
         ]
      };
      $('.vDesc1_ckeditor').ckeditor(config);
      $('.vDesc2_ckeditor').ckeditor(config);
   });

Any help is greatly appreciated.