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They could be getting in lots of different ways, but to start, check your file and directory permissions…generally, your files should be 644 and directories 755 — depending on your server.

If you are using WP 2.8+ you can install directly from within WP admin. If not, see the following video for details.

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This is wordpress support. Again, since you made the outside edges of the header and footer transparent…that’s about as close as you can get…you could adjust the footer a bit more though.

If you want it to look real clean with a repeating background, then you should edit the images to remove the rounded corners and the drop shadows around the images. Then your repeating background will cleanly run behind your blog area…see below for an example.
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Cool…I like it. You should submit it to the themes directory here on wp.org.

To remove the gray bars, look for the following in style.css:

#wrap {
background:transparent url(img/light.gif) no-repeat scroll center top;
padding:20px 0;
}

Remove the background line so it looks like this:

#wrap {
padding:20px 0;
}

The blogroll should be in the West sidebar…if it’s there remove it. It it’s not there, then you may need to remove it from the sidebar.php file in the theme.

The point is, if your site is up, then we can look at it, and test it, in Firebug. I’m not good enough to just look at a bunch of css and spot this kind of problem…maybe others here can help though.

If you want to use one that is the same dimensions as the default image, then just replace your default header image with your custom image…it’s here:

http://chickfires.host22.com/wp-content/themes/vector-flower/images/top_frame.jpg