[plaedien]

whoops - actually the overflow: hidden killed all vertical scrolling too. Not good.

I couldnt deal with the scroll bar horizontally, so i ended up biting the bullet and doing a large background image which is mostly white - turns out it was only 10kb more than the bamboo by itself anyway - so what the hell. Found this code that makes it work perfectly:

html, body {
    background: #fff url(images/background-bamboo-large.png) no-repeat center top;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: table;
    height: 100%;
    min-height: 100%;
	font-family: sans-serif;
	behavior: url(PIE.php);
}

from here: http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials...rge-background

now works like a charm!

http://onthemend.com.au/test/