This should be a simple matter for your skin designer to fix as 'Lynne' said. I don't understand why your hosting company is trying to fix this?
Unless the skin designer is doing some weird DOM changes on elements, this is just some CSS that needs to be modified. Not that I know but VB probably just modified some layout code that your designer used as part of his selectors for his CSS.
I know this is frustrating, but it is not a hard thing to fix by someone who understand vb and CSS.
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