I did drop the default background I was using because it weighed in at over 1 meg which isnt so good. The default now is a paultry 61 kb.
I have had others complain about visual abnormalities and long load times. I updated to IE7 and my site seems to work fine with that now.
Thanks benbt-japan, yes it was fairly simple to set up. Im curious as to what browser you are using? I use Fire Fox and it looks great, however there seems to be a majot problem with IE.
If anybody could give me some feedback on this it would be great.