My page CSS is not overriding my external for the background color on this page:
MoonlitGallery.net/Contact---LinkMe.html

are you talking about the style in your head tags of that page? if that's the case, you are missing a ; after the color code.

Okay, I added the ; --thank you.
However, it still isn't overriding the external CSS.
And also...there's suppose to be a purple border around all the content (created with 2 tables) but that isn't showing up either.

the background is black like you told it to be on netscape and IE. Try holding down the shift button and hitting refresh.

The border I see are around your link info on IE and Netscape.

Netscape does have a blue border around the whole content. INstead of using bgcolor="" on your table, use border

<Table style="border: 1px #hexcode;">