Why does my DW site look different depending on computer?

Here are my specs...
I am using Dreamweaver CS4 on two computers. One is a 64 bit windows 7 desktop with a 24" widescreen monitor, and the other is a 64 bit windows 7 17" widescreen laptop. I access the site from both computers using a usb external drive (backed up every night). Because I travel a bit, I find that most of the site work I do is on the laptop. As one would hope in a WYSIWYG environment, my design view on the laptop is pretty close to what the uploaded site looks like. Very close. However, when I do need to work on the desktop, the design view will show divs out of place, way over to the right or left as though pushed or something. BUT, when I check the preview and/or upload the page and check it online--everything is fine.
I've learned to ignore it if I know it is not affecting the output, but it would be helpful if there is a way to have both views accurate. Any ideas?

Thanks very much for looking at the code, and I didn't realize about the ampersands. I ran the validator tonight and wow, I'm embarrassed. I went through and repaired a great deal in my main template page, and tomorrow I will have to go through the other pages and see if I have more. I'm sure I do. While I was able to fix a lot of the errors, there are still some on this page (main template) that have me confused, and I welcome some wisdom. After fixing as many errors as I could the following list has me stumped.
The reason I am stumped is because all of these lines are created by Dreamweaver. I didn't write them. I have attempted to change the order of the lines, but still come up with validation errrors just in a different order. Here are the lines as the validation report refer to in my template: I will put the corresponding numbers at the beginning of the appropriate lines...
Thank you for any suggestions anyone has.
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-     transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <link href="../css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    
    <title>Untitled Document</title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7">
    
[8]    <script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
[9]    <script src="../SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
[10]   <link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
         
         
[13]         <link href="../SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
[14]         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
[15]         </head>
   <body>
   
   <div id="headerWrapper">
     <div id="navWrapper">
       <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
         <li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li>
         <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="../about.html">About</a></li>
         <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="../services.html">Services</a></li>
         <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="../portfolio.html">Portfolio</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="../clients.html">Clients</a></li>
            <li><a href="../events.html">Events</a></li>
            <li><a href="../projects.html">Projects</a></li>
            <li><a href="../photos.html">Photos</a></li>
            <li><a href="../videos.html">Videos</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="../press.html">Press</a></li>
        <li><a href="../contact.html">Contact</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="noitalics" id="headerHeadline">headerHeadline</div>
</div>

<div id="blackBar">
    <div id="blackBarContainer">
    <div id="imageSlideshowContainer">Content for id "imageSlideshowContainer" Goes Here</div>

[47]      <div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0">
        <div class="AccordionPanel">
          <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Clients</div>
          <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="../clients.html"><img src="../images/clients_nn.png" width="280" height="200" /></a></div>
        </div>

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