this is why I hate actual web design lol,
try this
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="XHTML namespace">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<span>
<img src="images/leftside.gif" align="left" />
</span>
<span>
<span>
<form action="http://localhost:1980/sort" method="get" name="form1" id="form1" style="display:inline">
<select name="sortby">
<option value="default">Default</option>
<option value="Rank">Rank</option>
<option value="CurOnline">Online Count</option>
<option value="MaxOnline">Online Peak</option>
<option value="AvgOnline">Online Avg</option>
<option value="Votes">Votes</option>
<option value="TotalVotes">Total Votes</option>
<option value="Name">Name</option>
<option value="Description">Description</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Sort" />
</form>
</span>
</span>
<span>
<img src="/images/rightside.gif" />
</span>
</div>
</body>
</html>
and actually you could get rid of some of those spans as well...
edit: not sure why it is adding the runuo stuff before the image src...