[SOLVED] Excerpt length and content problem

Excerpts are not displaying the content properly on posts that are generated with the Formidable plug in. I managed to get the results display table to keep the table format in the settings (don't strip <table>) but the graphs below it just show the code, and the form itself on another post is not cutting off, or displaying the radio buttons and formatting.
I tried shortening the excerpts; but this only worked on the 'results' post; the form still displays incorrectly and the right sidebar jumps down next to it.

Formidable has it's own style component - could this be put into the theme options css inserts?
Might be another workaround using static home page; but haven't set that up yet...
Any suggestions?