My page is messed up!! well my practice page is. take a look and please tell me what I am doing wrong or a better way!!
www (http://www.geocities.com/drowninghope16/index2.html)

just off hand...

1. color values in the css area should not be quoted.
from this...
color:"#000000";
to this...
color:#000000;

2. values should be entered into the css coding for your body...
background-image:url(value); [url of background image to be used, i.e. background.gif]
background-repeat:value; [repeat, no-repeat, repeat-x, repeat-y]
background-position:valueI valueII; [valueI: top, center, bottom, percentage, pixel number]
[valueII: right, center, left, percentage, pixel number]
background-attachment: [scroll, fixed]

3. you also seem to be missing the ending bracket } for the body css section too.