Hmmmm.....thats not right

This evening is a special occasion I have just applied a test of my colour map. But sadly I appear to have hit a bit of a problem, for some reason (I have know idea) the map is appearing... well like this (see below). This isnt the first time this has happened, everytime I have tried to apply something I have painted to a mesh (no matter how simple) this has occured, and its really bugging me, so on the off chance anyone knows how to solve or, and so you can have a little ganderat how spectacularly this has gone, I thought I would post i up, enjoy.