ok, ehum.. your post kind of confusded me, so im going to take a wild guess and at least give you a rough answer, if im wrong dont shout at me

sounds to me like, your PHP varabiles arent showing up,
and im guessing thats because your assuming, Globals are turned on, so say if
you've got an input thats
<input type=text name=name value=wispy>
if you submited that $name should contatin wispy but it wont, if the vars are turned off.. this isnt really a bad thing

now if your using POST as your Method the varaible with the data would be
$_POST['name']

if you where using GET as your method the varaible with the data would be
$_GET['name']

so try that to see if its solved your problem

Thanks
Wispy