I don't remember why at the time, but I commented out rectangle_top.tpl in customer/home.tpl and rearranged some things. So here is a snip of my home.tpl
Code:
<body LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=5 RIGHTMARGIN=0 BOTTOMMARGIN=0>
<table border=0 width=85% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 align="center">
<TR>
<td colspan=7>{ include file="head.tpl" }
</td>
</tr>
I believe you may need to change the end of home.tpl and/or rectangle_bottom.tpl to reflect the change of the table structure. So I have the head.tpl included within the main page's table. I think what adpboss suggested was basically what I did in the end, I just did it in a different method.
Hope this helps.
Carrie