datepicker issues

I am having a couple problems, the most troublesome is that the dates arent actually clickable on my template... when you click the date field and the calendar comes up but its about 50% opacity and if you click anywhere in the calendar area it just clicks whatever is underneath.
I have tried both the default and mootools datepicker (using mootools now)
attached are 2 pictures, plain white is the "test form" which is working but the black/grey picture is live on the site and not working.
[attachment=1]chronobroken.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=0]chronobrokentest.jpg[/attachment]

problem 2: I have changed the default format to d/m/Y so on the test page I am receiving the output im looking for HOWEVER there are other date fields that I would like to use that only require %Y, how do I force different formats per datepicker on the same form?

Hi baggednismo,

It looks as though the datepicker is behind the form, please see this FAQ for a possible fix.

You can give different classes to datepickers and then use the Custom MooTools datepicker action to configure them. This may work better if you use plain text inputs as the elements for these 'different' datepickers.

Bob