I did notice the stars stacked vertically on one version of the template when viewed with FireFox 3.
Usually, problem code will give you warnings or errors during display, e.g. IE7 gives them on the lower frame under the brower window. Same place you see links and load status type messages appear while browsing). Usually, it will be something like a "! with yellow background and Done". If you double-clik on that !Done, it normally gives a pop-up window with the errors (and code line references). I'd expect Frontpage to also give you warnings during Preview tests.
If I recall, the errors I saw were for a missing "Class" definition and some errors in the Java code section at the front of the code. The Java at the front is the typical Right-Mouse click protection that most code use by Maximus with the pop-up message. It might be simplier to locate the bugs in the new code and compare to the original code.
Danno