non secure items error caused by my bg image?

Had to share this cause it is weird and if anyone else runs into this problem - here's what i did... and if anyone knows the why here - that would be cool to know.

I was getting the non secure items on checkout removed

made logo and body backrgound url relative vs absolute i.e. ../images vs htt://yourdomain.com/images in the stylesheet

Still a problem
removed all outside links and any calls to http://
turned off banners on ssl pages in tools banner manager

Checked for any script reference and http reference found none

Still a problem
removed the background image completely

FIXED!

even though the browser was reading the background image as relative (i checked and rechecked) - still threw an error. Very strange - anyone know why?

to keep ssl pages running with non secure errors you must call images and links from an ssl location or refer to its direct path on the server ie/
/images/whatever.jpg etc