Something I have found - and I don't know why this is - but if you remove the "background-position" from your #wrapper div in your stylesheet, the flicker will stop. For some reason - even if your page is set to reload every visit, in IE, if you have the background position set, it'll make the flicker - but if that line is not in your styelsheet, then the flicker goes away.
Like I said, I don't know *why* it does that, but it works (I have to keep this in mind when I do CSS-based rollovers for navigation - if ever I put in that "background-position" thing, then the nav links flicker like crazy when moving around there - but I remove that line and all is well!) I've never had it happen to an entire page background before, but I would imagine it's the same issue I had with my rollover links. HTH ~Shelly ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/