I have found some tags that put a desired photo
as a wallpaper image but the preview showed it as tile and I wanted to have it spread all over the template as one photo [stretching the length of the listing]instead.Perhaps someone can tell me how to adjust the code so this happens.Perhaps I just have to alter a tag or two..
Here is the example with a sample photo.

<table align="center"width="100%"cellspacing="0"cellpadding="20"border="0" bgcolor="ffffff"background=
"http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/7/1/9/2/4/webimg/114962406_th.jpg">
<tr>
<td>
.......your description........
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I totally appreciate anyone that is willing to waste their time to help me.

Hi. I've put your code on this practice board:
http://www.practiceboard.com/?8384851

As you see, this picture that's 500x375 (one of mine I grabbed) still tiles with the table set to 80%. So you'll just want to use a larger picture but it'll still tile down to repeat the pattern unless the page is very short.

Hope this is what you were asking?

That is exactally what I am talking about!!!

I want to thank you for giving me help. I have quite a few items this would be good for.

I figured out how to customise some borders but those middle parts a little trickier.

I will dabble today and see if I can learn more new tricks.

I encourage any other HTmL doctors to speak their
diagnosises and updated remedies.

Hi. You're sure welcome. What's your image URL? Or are there several you're wanting to use?
Here's a link on working tables that may (or may not) help ya out some.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

To keep the background image from tiling you can use CSS. So instead of:

background="image.jpg"

you would do:

style="background: url(image.jpg) no-repeat;"