Rendering with a DTD

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Hi,

I couldn't find an xhtml forum, but I'm hoping someone here could help me on this...

For some reason, I can't get my page to render with the doctype header. When the DTD is there, the page will validate to xhtml1 transitional, but the page is all messed-up. However, when I comment out the doctype header the page will render just fine. I have checked the root address and it's correct. Also the CSS is valid.

If you want to see what I mean, here is the messed up page...

http://www.yakokay.com/backstageTestOn.php

and here is the validation results for the page...

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.yakokay.com/backstageTestOn.php

and here is what the page is supposed to look like...

http://www.yakokay.com/backstageTestOff.php

Thanks in advance for any help on this,
Randy