Sidebar widget area adding extra p and br tags

I wanted to include a plugin widget for searching a google map to my header. I registered a sidebar in my functions.php file using this code:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ){
    register_sidebar(array(
        'name' => 'front_page_header',
		'id' => 'front_page_header',
        'before_widget' => '<div id="fpheadersearch">',
        'after_widget' => '</div>',
        'before_title' => '',
        'after_title' => '',
));
}

Then I added this (in a page through the add page in admin):

<?php /* Widgetized sidebar */     if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('front_page_header') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I successfully added my sidebar and then added the widget to it. The widget shows up but doesn’t show horizontally like it does when I add it to other side bars in my template. This time, the widget (which is a search [code]<form>[/code] stacks up vertically instead of laying out nicely horizontally.

When I use firebug to view the code, there are extra p tags and br tags added, if I delete these tags through firebug, the widget lays out horizontally. Is there something in the sidebar or widget area that is adding the extra p and br tags?

The page can be found here: wwwDOT monroebrandsDOTcom / tests/ gmaps