the email may be using a different template file from the one you edited, make sure you are editing the correct template file.
I think the contact page you send me is not the correct one, this one does not have any universal email code on it and is set to post to the index.html page, server side code used in universal email cannot be applied to an static html page, so it must be a different page.
the issue with the redirect is most likely a php error occurring, to turn error reporting on, add the following code at line 1 of the page:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors','on');
?>
instead of saving the pages as text files, you should add them to a zip archive and attach the zip file to your response.