Spry validation field display problems

Hi, I'm at my wits end! I'm trying to create an interactive form with the Spry validation widgets. Everything seems to go well and previewing the form works fine in all browsers but when i come to publishing the form on a site it displays incorrectly. Basically all the spry messages apear next to the text field at one when you open the page, nothing is hidden. I can't find anything on the web that surgests this problem. I'm afraid that i am very new to Dreamweaver and am probably trying to run before I can walk but i just don't understand the problem. I've even tried publishing trial code from 'example form pages' and i get the same problem - works in preview but not when i publish it. Am i being very dense and missing something vital or could it be my domain host. I've used a free email form from a site and that published fine (not spry though). Please help!!!!!!