Theme development

Hello,
I am converting my html/css site over to a modified Kubrick theme in Drupal 4.7. I have most of the elements in place to replicate the old design, but I am having trouble with the background.

My current site uses a 1px vertical image to create a gradient that is 800px high. Below that I have set the background color to the lowest pixel in the gradient so the color is continuous if the content stretches the page past that point.

I made a new theme that allows you to use start with any of the hundreds of CSS Zen Garden .css files. I got CVS access and uploaded my code into the CVS repository. I even made an associated web page to help with setting up the theme.

I have a wireframe for a client and I am attempting to create a community/dating site with Drupal. Is it possible to create a layout something similar to the wireframe below?

http://www.popstalin.com/client/dru_wireframe.gif

I'm mostly concerned about the search form. I really don't know if this is going to work or not (using Drupal in this manner) but I thought I'd give it a shot.

TIA!

i added a flash banner to my site. it works fine. but if i login as any user or browse admin pages it never loads. any idea?

I'm trying to replace the $primary_links with images in the Mollio theme and still have the secondary_links dropping down. Any ideas? So far, I have the following:

I'm taking a stab at developing my first drupal theme and have run into a problem.

I'm using 'blumarine' as the basis for my theme.

I want to place an image into a table cell and give it the fixed dimensions of 10px-10px. In a non-drupal site I can do this without a problem.