Drupal 7 Hijack Form Errors

What I'm doing here is hijacking the form errors so that they don't display in the typical drupal message box and I can display them beside each field as desired.

//Hijack our errors so they don't display normally.
$errors = form_get_errors();
//Only rebuild form if there are actually errors that we need to display
if( !empty($errors) ) {
  $form_state['errors'] = $errors;
  $form_state['rebuild'] = TRUE;    
}
// Remove all error messages
drupal_get_messages('error');
// Get the array of errors and reset them
$errors = &drupal_static("form_set_error", array());
// Make sure that each error should be applied to the field
foreach (array_keys($errors) as $field) {
  unset($errors[$field]);
}