> I think the main issue is running at 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 and the
> background tile is too
> short. So I shortened the uSuq photo some and fixed some <FONT> tags.
I think that it's basically a by-product of using a tiled background on a
very long page. If the user's browser is configured such that not all of the
text will fit within the height of one copy of the background image, then a
black band appears across the page where the next copy of the background
image starts. Whether or not the text will fit depends on the user's
browser's font and font size, screen resolution, browser's HTML rendering
idiosyncrasies, etc.
--Adam