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Why not use the old-fashioned <body> tag to set the background color?
<BODY BGCOLOR=#000000>
When using stylesheets, I think it's a good idea to test the results in all
browsers, since the two major browsers don't agree on stylesheet standards
and older browsers don't recognize them at all.