Hi Steve,

You need yourself a copy of the IE developer toolbar!  It's "Find Element by Click" feature makes solving these sorts of issues a breeze.

Using it, it took only a few seconds to notice that it is your background attribute that is causing the black bar problem.  The TD is set to "background: /test/Portals/0/Skins/empad/images/smallgradient.png", and is repeating.  You need a "background-repeat: repeat-x" attribute on this cell.

The wierdo line problem at the tops of your left and right-hand side bars are due to an IMG tag with a background that doesn't align properly with its containing TD background.  Removing it cleaned things up.

Hope this helps!

Brandon (the Human IE Dev Toolbar!)

EDIT: Great skin, by the way!

Thanks Brandon, that tool works great, thanks for the help.

Maybe you can answer one other question if you don't mind?

I am using the skinobject css to change the object colors to black, however I still want the Login object to be light grey as it is on a black background bar at the top. I have tried adding a class to it but no luck. Is there a way for different skinobjects to have different attributes?

Steve