"new sharepoint site" broken after template upload

[Ryan Rupert]

-please help, what a pain this is, here is the story

1.) from my MOSS 2007 Project 2007 Project Web Access site I followed steps
in this article to create a project workspace template and then ran 'stsadm
-o addteamplate' to promote the template to global status
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms503640.aspx

2.) now, I am not able to see any of the built in templates for any sites in
Moss 2007 when I go to create a new site under PWA (the "new sharepoint site"
page 'http://<server>/pwa/_layouts/newsbweb.aspx') it does not display the
images/description or the 'select a template groups'

3.) I have tried to diagnose what happened and, not being an ASP/web
developer have not gotten too far, this is what I have figured out
a.) I can create new sites from other Sites in the WSS, just not the PWA
instance
b.) the 'newsbweb.aspx' file on the file system is fine (compared to working
lab and no change)
c.) the problem is with the PWA Sites ability to use the 'template picker',
no idea beyond that
d.) I have done a 'view source' from my web browser on the page for "create
a new site", saved and compared the results between a working lab and the
broken and can see these differences:

WORKING
src="/_layouts/images/stsprev.png"
<div
id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_InputFormTemplatePickerControl_ctl00_ctl00_FilterTabs"><div class="ms-templatepickerselected">

BROKEN
src=""
<div
id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_InputFormTemplatePickerControl_ctl00_ctl00_FilterTabs"></div>