You would need to do something like this:

Replace:
<TD class="VertMenuTitle">[img]skin1/images/blueboarderbg2.gif[/img]

with:

<TD class="VertMenuTitle" background="{$ImagesDir}/blueboarderbg2.gif">

that works great but the image is repeating in the menu; how do you get the image to not repeat?

does anyone know the code you enter in a TPL flie to fix a background image?

Need some help;
I am working with the menu TPL file and I wanna put a backgruond image in a header menu but the image is overlaping;how do you set the background image to FIXED?

You need to use CSS for the background image, it works better than calling a background image in html.

If i wanted to try it with html what would I code of a fixed background image?

You can't, which is why you need to use CSS :)

thanks