Hi....I now have my footer under control but for one detail...
Fred has pointed out that the top of his head has been sliced off.
Would the footer have resized itself through the removal of the credit text?
There seems to be no option for sizing the footer as there is for the header. Do i have to resize the image to squeeze freds head back in??..........jim.

http://tothegarden.org/wp/?page_id=137

looks like you put some footer styling in

td#footer {
width: auto;
background: #e6e191;
padding: 125px;
text-align: center;
background: url('http://tothegarden.org/wp/wp-content/gallery/footer/Fred.gif') bottom center no-repeat;
color: #777777;
font-size: 95%;	}

try this, since the gif is 320px in height - remove 'padding: 125px;' and add 'height: 320px;'

Hi Juggledad....Thanks for that.
And congratulations on your new found position on the good ship attahualpa, may all who sail on her..........