Ok this is probably me being truly truly stupid but I just can't figure out how on my site, I make the whole left coloumn grey...(if u look under "odd stuff" and "fun links" the column is black) can u help me?

my site is at www.blackandwhitemusic.cjb.net

i don't see the links or areas you are referring to.
there is a game image on a purple background on top and a page not found on the bottom area.

aaaahhh...wat happened...ahh...this isn't good...my whole code is gone....

now go and try it...but go to...

www.geocities.com/blackmusicwhite

u won't be able to see the source in the other one...that game was a DHTML mario game I was puttin on...it wasn't just an image it actually worked woohoo

just as a quick guess following your coding...
change this...
<td>
<center>.:<a href="" onMouseOver="var bg=prompt('What color would you like?');document.bgColor=bg">Hover here!</a>:.

to this...
<td bgcolor="#B3B3B3">
<center>.:<a href="" onMouseOver="var bg=prompt('What color would you like?');document.bgColor=bg">Hover here!</a>:.

thanx alot its all fixed finally...now to add sum more DHTML games :D