extra ">" characters showing up in tables

Hm, strange.
But the problem must be somewhere else because the tags would not be closed without the ">".

Sevi,

The issue is that the tpl has <? and not <?php

Just replace those and it'll be fine. Might be why you might not see them.

Sevi, do you need me to post a patch or did my one liner make sense?

Normally your one liner would be enough. But I still don't understand what's going on here O_o. I've never heard before that there's a difference between <? and <?php. The templates of views module use <?php too.

Yes, please write a patch for me :)
And could you please explain it to me?

Greetings,
sevi

I will make a patch later. The issue was that the tpl was using <? and NOT <?php. Not all webservers are configured to trigger php processing from <? ?> tags. Actually, most servers I've been on only recognize <?php ?> as php.

-      <tr class="draggable <?php print $zebra; ?><? if ($draggableviews_extended[$count]) print ' '. 'draggableviews-extended'; ?><? if ($tabledrag_type[$count]) print ' '. $tabledrag_type[$count]; ?>">

You will notice that after the print $zebra you're using a <?.

Oh, ok. I thought you want me to use <? instead of <?php. You're right. I haven't noticed that I use <? in my template.
I don't need you to write a patch for me :)

I'll commit this immediately.

Greetings,
sevi

Marked #474762: Remove use of PHP short tag in theme and #476936: Template file has short PHP tags as duplicates.