chaoskaizer – thx this did work. for some reason in IE (for me) it was showing a space (without the image) inbetween the body/page and footer. i thought i had tweaked this same padding but apparently hadn’t… so was wondering how to fix it. thx again everyone!
chaoskaizer – thx so much! that took care off the bottom shading… but now i still have the issue of that awful space between the body and header. Also, viceng… interesting, it looks fine on firefox for me as well (not mac but pc)… anyone know of a work-around for this?