The original webpage designer must have built in something to keep email addresses from being displayed. It's the only answer. Time to go back to the drawing board with another template and try again.
Nah - the code you sent is a simple thing... And it is not displaying because it is malformed. If you'd like, pm me and we can do something by email... send it here and I will fix it. Then you can see. I am happy to help you, grasshopper, but just the bumpy parts - you must learn in order to learn :D