Many thanks, Lois, for your helpful remarks concerning my html. I went through it diligently and found a number of missing closing font tags. Also one which was out of position. More importantly, though, I discovered some major inconsistencies in the field definitions and the config definitions. Having put these right, the html works well.
It turns out that most of my problems were, in fact, caused by my ISP. After discovering that the formmail script (supplied by the ISP) which I had previously modified to correct an inherent error left there by the ISP, had mysteriously been changed back again, I noticed that all the attributes of my files had also been changed on the server. A quick phone call to the ISP soon had them putting right some things that they had screwed up. They probably cost me a days work by messing around with the files and other permissions. I still do not know why they did this, but it is very worrying!

Thanks for your help.


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David Olley
david@afil.co.uk