Problem with placing a form on a CMS page

[LewisMoseley]

Running a test-bed setup:

CMS Made Simple v0.11.2 Scarborough
MySQL 4.1.15
Apache 1.3.29 on FreeBSD

System is installed and working, many pages active.

On our old site, we have a client info request submission page with a form and formmail.pl to send the results as an e-mail.  This page is located here:

http://www.riskcon.com/clientinquiry.htm

Basically, what I want to do is copy the same form to this page on CMS-MS:

http://intranet.riskcon.com/index.php?p ... Do_For_You

It works, more or less, but here's the problem:  If you look at the old page, you'll see that the "I am interested in..." text block is nearly full page width.  On the new page, it is a narrow text box.  

I have tried many different things, including putting the form code in an HTML-blob ind including it in the page, pasting the form code into the page in SOURCE mode, letting CMS create the form and then putting my code inside, etc.  Nothing that I try makes the text box wider. In fact, on the new CMS page, the width of the text box seems to be fixed... whether I set the width parameter to 5 or 200 or anything in between, the text box width stays the same.  When I examine the source code of the new page, it is SUPPOSED to be wide, but isn't.

Can anyone help me make some sense out of this?  Thanks in advance.

PS As a minor annoyance, on the new page the header and text are not where they are supposed to be, to the right of the menu, but are located below the menu.