Its not just the background that isnt showing, If you look at my site in both Firefox and IE, You will notice that the forum spreads accross the whole page (Firefox) but only covers 1/2 of it (and aligned to the left) in IE. Shouldnt the background be fine if its specified in the CSS Stylesheet? I thought that using <body bgcolor> is infact a worse way to do it, and using CSS is more recommended.