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Hey John,

I believe that you can add a css statement to your style.css in the child-theme and it should work.

Something like this – in which the image is in a directory called images sitting off the root

body {
background: #eaeaea url( /images/background.gif ) top left repeat-x;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
line-height: 170%;
color: #555;
width: 90%;
min-width: 960px;
max-width: 1250px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding-top: 0 !important; /* Remove the top padding space for the admin bar in this theme */
}