Woohoo I'm here in Colorado now after driving hours and hours through freezing rain, snow packed interstates and snow hehehe

Anyway now I have a little more time to help now that we're settled in

About the background, there is a CSS way to center the background in the browser window so it will be in the center regardless of resolution. You can also tell the image to ONLY repeat on the x axis, or only to repeat on the y-axis. For example... It will be inserted into the body tag and look something like this:

http://domain.com/urltoimage.jpg) repeat-y center;">

That tells the browser to center the image in the browser window and to ONLY repeat the image vertically but not horizontally.

Play around with it a little bit; you'll get the hang of it.

Good luck!!

Ooh, also, the background being "static" will have nothing to do with the placement of the header image or any content on the page