Marshall,
Hope this helps:
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<table>
<tr>
<td background="../images/myimg.gif">
.
.
.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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I tried this out and the gif image got tiled throughout the cell. You might have to make the size/dimension of the image equal to the size/dimension of the cell.
DesertFox