Thanks for the tip, Brian. But what was happening was that the background was coming through but I didn't want it to. Any color that I had in my table cell was being ignored IF I had a background image set for the master table. At this point, I'm so DONE with worrying about NS4... I made it so that NS4 users can at least view and use the site, even though they will miss all of the aesthetic beauty that everybody else on every more modern browser will see. Oh well.