okay, I had a chance to sit down and figure out how to see the print view of my db.
Here's the code in the db--
<td width="33%" align="center"><a rel="lightbox[people]" href="/CMS/cms_images/babylg.jpg"><span style="font-family: Arial"><img border="0" alt="baby intarsia plan" width="80" height="164" src="/CMS/cms_images/babysm.jpg" /></span></a></td>
So the code is definately reversed in the db, but the lightbox works.