Ok, dinner plans fell through so I tested this just now.

I remember now why I needed to to add a repeating image to the background behind the banner instead of just filling in with color.

It looks great in FF, but in IE, it resolves as a different color than the banner, even though it's the same color code.

Take a look in IE and you'll see what I mean.

I'm back to trying to figure out how to code two different background images.