It looks to me like the following happened.
You copied the HTML code, then pasted it into a WYSIWYG editor, which in turn converted all the <'s and >'s into <'s and >'s, which is why it was displaying like that.
Here's what was inside the code of your current splash page, which is why it wasn't working:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 2.2 (Win32)">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Warren Craig">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20070817;19535231">
<META NAME="CHANGEDBY" CONTENT="Warren Craig">
<META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20070817;20295296">
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
@page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in }
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }
-->
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
<PRE><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www..org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><BR><html><BR> <head><BR> <title>Resurrection</title><BR> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/settings/Resurrection/files/styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="normal" /> <BR> </head><BR> <body><BR> <div style="width:100%;text-align:center"><BR> <img src="http://dkpfiles.com/resurrection/files/splash%20resurrection.jpg"><BR> <br><BR> <a id="splash" href="/news.php" title="Enter the Resurrection guild website">Enter the Resurrection guild website.</a><BR> </div><BR> </body><BR></html> </PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
