umm.. I'm using a css layout and external style sheets and my background won't work. Help me?

Observe:
body {
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #CCCCCC;
scrollbar-base-color: #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-face-color: #000000;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-track-color: #FFFFFF;
}
-->

<!--
A:link { COLOR: #339933; text-decoration: none;}
A:visited { COLOR: #334433; text-decoration: none; cursor:default;}
A:active { COLOR: #339933; TEXT-DECORATION: none;}
a:hover { color: #3399CC; text-decoration:blink;
background-color: #CCFFCC; cursor:crosshair}

-->

<!--
body,tr,td, h6, p, li
{font-size: 9pt;
font-family: comic sans ms, verdana, ariel;
color: #00CC33;
line-height:12px;
letter-spacing:0pt;
-->

body
{
background-image: url(checkerboard.gif);
background-attachment: fixed;}

</STYLE>

thank you.:lolol:

take out the STYLE and COMMENT tags...

body {
background-image: url(checkerboard.gif);
background-attachment: fixed;}
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #CCCCCC;
scrollbar-base-color: #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-face-color: #000000;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-track-color: #FFFFFF;
}

a:link {color: #339933; text-decoration: none;}
a:visited {color: #334433; text-decoration: none; cursor:default;}
a:active {color: #339933; text-decoration: none;}
a:hover {color: #3399CC; text-decoration:blink;
background-color: #CCFFCC; cursor:crosshair;}

body,tr,td, h6, p, li
{font-size: 9pt;
font-family: comic sans ms, verdana, ariel;
color: #00CC33;
line-height:12px;
letter-spacing:0pt;
}

adding a full url of the background should make it work.
when there's only teh filename,
then it means that the background is in the same folder as the file is.

body {
background-image: url(checkerboard.gif);
background-attachment: fixed;}
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #CCCCCC;
scrollbar-base-color: #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-face-color: #000000;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-track-color: #FFFFFF;
}

take out the red bracket (sp?) because now the stylesheet is thinking that the body part ends there.

Love,
Mirna

thanks mirna.
been a long day :D

Also, arial is misspelled, unless there's actually a font out there called ariel... not too terribly important but just thought I'd let you know ;).