Can you post the code so I can read what are you calling?
Do you have teamviewer?
You can find me in this team viewer at hchapa@lrgvdc91.org.
I can help you trouble shoot download the teamviewer and create an acccount from there I can see your computer.
Is free.
Have you tried using any debugging tools such as FireBug for FireFox or Developer Tools (F12) in Chrome?
There is definitely an issue with the below line
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/layout.css">
as the code does not know where to look for this stylesheet.
Is this template part of the Beta testing for a configurable JS Viewer that ESRI plans on releasing some time in the summer?
no its not, just an old template.
Just so you know, you cant just run the file from the filesystem, it must be hosted in a webserver such as tomcat or iis