I have read all of the posts related to this question and Kevin's solutions leave me with two questions:
Does the javascript solution
http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/request-setting-to-place-field-descriptions-above-fields#post-12697
force java to be run on every WordPress page, regardless whether or not it contains a form? If it only runs when there is actually a form present, then it is a good enough solution for me.
On the CSS solution,
http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/how-to-create-single-checkbox-that-is-required-for-confirming-tc-for-example#post-2207
is there coding that could be done to forms.css so that the fix is in for all forms and not custom coding to identify all possible input field IDs?