"You are previewing with the F12 key or the Preview icon in DW? Are you
previewing the Template page, or a child page? Do you have preview with
temp files enabled in your preferences? When you "upload to the server",
are you uploading and then browsing to the *.dwt page? Have you tried
spawning a child page from this template, and then previewing/uploading the
child page?"

Yes, I am previewing with the F12 key, I've tried both the Template page and
the child page and unfortunately I get the same result, same thing when they
are placed on the server. I've browsed to both the .dwt page and the page the
template is applied to. Now I am having issues with all the code not rendering
properly in Firefox ... I'm sorry I'm so new to all of this hand coding!