posted by JustDave:
Everything between the html comments is for html only. There is no php parsing done. If your going to add php code you will need to add it before the first ?> closing. 
I did it just by going back into php by using <? Later I can change the script so that I'm not going in and out of php, but for now it helps to keeps things separate while I squash all the bugs.
Either you think I'm a total newbie at this sort of thing, or I'm not phrasing my responses to you very well...
