and I wanted mine to be original and creative. A lot of my people I know seem to have ordinary ones with regular backgrounds and no real effects. Being as I'm new, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of creative things I could do with hit to really personalize it?

I creat layouts for myspace. If you want a custom one jsut pm me with a description and I'll make you one for free. But if not, then I would go to the myspace forums and look at the customizeing pages, they helped me learn how to.