This is great Thanks!
check it out… work in progress. Pushing the limits of what WordPress can do as CMS http://www.gluepaste.com
Yeah I saw a couple of post describing conditonal statements and the use of javascript which kind of throws me for loop but probably should try to figure it out at some point
With that said I just found this…
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-background/
which is a plgin that does exactly what I needed.