[SOLVED] body background - setting image & color

I am using Atahualpa3.4.6 with WordPress 2.9.2. I would like to use a background image in the theme folder. I went to WP - Atahualpa Theme options -Overall style & Config - Body,Text & Links, Body Style page and replaced the default (font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif to below...

font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background: url(/wordpress/wp-content/themes/atahualpa346/images/backgr.gif) repeat top left;
font-size: 0.8em;

....but, the background of the body remained white color... and backgr.gif is not loaded.

I also tried changing the default to:

font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; color: #000000; background: #CCCCCC;

....but, the background color did not change to grey (#CCCCC), but remained white.

Please let me know how I can set the image and color for the background of the body.