I don't think we have that option on the profile pages right now, do we ecurbh?
I spent almost 30 minutes last night trying to figure out how to highlight text like I did in that post to 2J about the fryin' pan. I ended up using a table.
You might be able to do that 2J. Set up on large table and put your background gif in the one cell.
But I should stop now before I give the impression that I actually have some understanding of HTML.
<TABLE width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="URL">
<TR>
<TD>Put your page stuff here</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
Look at my profile page for an example of what it looks like.