Ah yes, that makes sense.

Well, I don't see why this is so horrible to you, as it's about the same as loading an image on a web page, but if that's the way you like it, so be it. I still say I've see this done tastefully and unintrusively in other site before, and I'm quite frustrated in not being able to find it.

IE6 and Netscape are supporting the CSS version of this, but I want it to work in older browsers. oh well, more searching...