Implementing Flexigrid

I am posting for our lead dev, who is also trying to get flexigrid working. We seem to have the CSS clobbering problem too. The data column widths are out of sync with the header row widths, and there is so much CSS going on, it's hard figure it out.

Can _house, or someone suggest a possible source of the conflict we should investigate? (Hoping he made a little more progress since this post)

Here is my whole post.php code for your consumption, please run it as a php file not as an xml file or it will not run.
also don't forget to replace hostname, username, dbname, and password.

<?

function runSQL($rsql) {

	$connect = mysql_connect($hostname,$username,$password) or die ("Error: could not connect to database");
	$db = mysql_select_db($dbname);
	
	$result = mysql_query($rsql) or die ('test');
	return $result;
	mysql_close($connect);
}

function countRec($fname,$tname) {
	$sql = "SELECT count($fname) FROM $tname ";
	$result = runSQL($sql);
	while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
		return $row[0];
	}	
}
$page = $_POST['page'];
$rp = $_POST['rp'];
$sortname = $_POST['sortname'];
$sortorder = $_POST['sortorder'];

if (!$sortname) $sortname = 'name';
if (!$sortorder) $sortorder = 'desc';

$sort = "ORDER BY $sortname $sortorder";

if (!$page) $page = 1;
if (!$rp) $rp = 10;

$start = (($page-1) * $rp);

$limit = "LIMIT $start, $rp";

$sql = "SELECT iso,name,printable_name,iso3,numcode FROM country $sort $limit";
$result = runSQL($sql);

$total = countRec('iso','country');

header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT" ); 
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate( "D, d M Y H:i:s" ) . "GMT" ); 
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate" ); 
header("Pragma: no-cache" );
header("Content-type: text/xml");
$xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n";
$xml .= "<rows>";
$xml .= "<page>$page</page>";
$xml .= "<total>$total</total>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
	$xml .= "<row id='".$row['iso']."'>";
	$xml .= "<cell><![CDATA[".$row['iso']."]]></cell>";		
	$xml .= "<cell><![CDATA[".utf8_encode($row['name'])."]]></cell>";
	$xml .= "<cell><![CDATA[".utf8_encode($row['printable_name'])."]]></cell>";		
	$xml .= "<cell><![CDATA[".utf8_encode($row['iso3'])."]]></cell>";		
	$xml .= "<cell><![CDATA[".utf8_encode($row['numcode'])."]]></cell>";		
	$xml .= "</row>";		
}

$xml .= "</rows>";
echo $xml;
?>