Turing an illustrator design into vector format

Hello,
  I recently finished an illustration using both the drawing and pen tool in Illustrator. I have exported the file as a png and have been asked to convert it into a vector format.
How is this done?
Thank you for your time.
J

Ok... so I've saved my images as PDFs... on my website I have dynamically created a list... on the right side of the list are 2 buttons.  Once I got over about 7 items in my list occasionally one of the sets of buttons gets all messed up as seen in the attached pic.... any ideas of what is going on and how to fix it?  Ohhh... and this is only a problem on the IPad-Safari browser.  Iphone it looks fine.... other browsers are mostly NA since I can't get PDFs to display in a lot of the other browsers, so I have a .PNG version for those....   If there is a solution to get the PDF versions working for other browsers that would be great too

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