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Why does my email look this why in google?

Attached is a screen shot of the email that I'm sending out. As you can see, everything is displaced, yet when I run the code on my browser, it looks fine. The code is below:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Texaco Country Music Showdown</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"href="http://www.countryshowdown.com/email/style.css">
<MAP NAME="header_map">
<AREA
   HREF="http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/index.php" ALT="Home" TITLE="Home"
   SHAPE=RECT COORDS="25,131,71,147">
   <AREA
   HREF="http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/TVStations.php" ALT="TV Stations" TITLE="TV Stations"
   SHAPE=RECT COORDS="115,132,175,144">
    <AREA
   HREF="http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/ContestLocations.php" ALT="Radio Stations" TITLE="Radio Stations"
   SHAPE=RECT COORDS="224,135,300,145">
    <AREA
   HREF="http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/ContestantList.php" ALT="View Contestants" TITLE="View Contestants"
   SHAPE=RECT COORDS="367,131,462,147">
        <AREA
   HREF="http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/Contact.php" target="_blank" ALT="Contact" TITLE="Contact"
   SHAPE=RECT COORDS="520,134,566,144">
      </map>
</head>

<body background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/BSPpreStephan_01.gif"  LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>

<table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;<BR>
&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR>
      <table height 0% width="600" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
      <tr>
      <td background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/PencilLine.jpg" width="2">&nbsp;<BR>
      </td>
      <td bgcolor="white" valign="top">
      <IMG SRC="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/email_header.jpg" width="600" border="0" USEMAP="#header_map">
      </td>
      <td background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/PencilLine.jpg" width="2">&nbsp;<BR>
      </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
      <td background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/PencilLine.jpg" width="2">&nbsp;<BR>
      </td>

      <!- main content ->
      <td valign="top" bgcolor="white" align="center">
            <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" valign="top" border="0">
            <td valign="top" align="center">
                  <table border="0" width="590" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
                  <tr>
                  <td background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/spacer.gif" height="300" width="590" valign="top">
                  
                  <!- content ->
                  
                  &nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR>Hello, $the_first_name !<P>To validate your email and to ensure that your votes count, click on the link below.";
$message .= "<P><A HREF=\"http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/songwriting_voter_validation.php?email=$voter_email&chk=$the_digest\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/songwriting_voter_validation.php?email=$voter_email&chk=$the_digest</a><P>If you have any questions, you can contact your Showdown staff by clicking <A HREF=\"http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/Contact.php\" target=\"_blank\">

                  </td>
                  </tr>
                  </table>
        </td>
            </tr>
            </table>

            <!- your copy ends here - >

      

            <!- end main content ->
      </td>
      <td background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/PencilLine.jpg" width="2">&nbsp;<BR>
      </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
      <td background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/PencilLine.jpg" width="2">&nbsp;<BR>
      </td>
      <td height="70" background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/email/new_footer.jpg">
      &nbsp;<BR>
      </td>
      <td background="http://www.countryshowdown.com/images/PencilLine.jpg" width="2">&nbsp;<BR>
      </td>
      </tr>
      </table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3" align="center">&nbsp;<BR>Special Promotions, Inc | 63 Music Square East | Nashville, TN 37203 | (p) 615.321.5130 | (w) <A HREF="http://www.countryshowdown.com" target="_blank">countryshowdown.com</a>&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR></td></tr>

</table>
</body>
</html>


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are you using text/html as content type when sending email ?
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Yes - here are my headers:

$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'. PHP_EOL;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'. PHP_EOL;
$headers .= 'FROM: contest@countryshowdown.com'. PHP_EOL;

The whole PHP code looks like this:

$subject_line = "voter validation";
$from_email = "contest@countryshowdown.com";
$the_first_name = stripslashes($_POST['voter_first_name']);

$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'. PHP_EOL;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'. PHP_EOL;
$headers .= 'FROM: contest@countryshowdown.com'. PHP_EOL;
$to = $voter_email;
$subject = $subject_line;
$message .= file_get_contents('email_header.php');
$message .= "&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR>Hello, $the_first_name !<P>To validate your email and to ensure that your votes count, click on the link below.";
$message .= "<P><A HREF=\"http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/songwriting_voter_validation.php?email=$voter_email&chk=$the_digest\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/songwriting_voter_validation.php?email=$voter_email&chk=$the_digest</a><P>If you have any questions, you can contact your Showdown staff by clicking <A HREF=\"http://www.countryshowdown.com/Texaco/Contact.php\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.<P>Thanks!";
$message .= file_get_contents('email_footer.php');
mail($to, $subject , $message, $headers);
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Afterthought: I have had good success with http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp