2 questions..., img map & aligning Options

[FireCrossedAngel]

Okay...I got 2 things about my layout that are confusin the f*ck out of me lol.

First off: I took my background image and made it into an image map or whatever (made the links 'you look/feel profle' etc) and the whole thing is 1024x768 but xanga puts that black thing on top of it and I dont understand how to make the image take the fullscreen...like cover that black background. Here's some screen shots to clarify this:





This is part of the image map code I am using:

<img src="url of my bg" BORDER=0px solid #000000; USEMAP="#imgmap">
</MAP> --how do i adjust it so it could be the way i want it to be?

And my second question is how to adjust the alignment of where my blog is so that lets say if i was viewing it in msn explorer with that thing on the side it wouldn't mess up the original alignment...is there a way to do this? like a code or something? This is my problem:



Much help is appreciated!! ^_^