I broke AskMe, and I really need an answer to this PHP problem.→[More:]

So here's the question that won't post, which I thankfully cutted-and-pasted.

Am transferring WordPress templates. Going from something someone cobbled together for me to a modified Kubrick theme. Am not even close to a PHP expert. Need help.

For some reason, the php code in my modified version of Kubrick is displaying the posts' categories as a list element. I can't for the life of me figure out why.

Here's what I can give you.

An excerpt of the php code that deals with post title and content is here. (Sorry, but I couldn't get the text file to wrap.)

The funky category display is here. (Yes, I know the author information is missing; I removed it for this question.)

When you view the source of the latter document, it displays as

Filed under [ul class="post-categories"]
[li] [a href="url" title="View all posts in Category"] * Category Name * [/a] [/li] [/ul]

So, the question:

What in the hell is adding the "ul" and "li" stuff in there? It's not in the PHP index page. Is it a CSS problem? I can't find the culprit there either.

This has been troubling me for weeks. Please help.

Also, is there a way to escape the pointy brackets in MetaChat?

P.S. I'm sorry for JRunning that other site.