Actually you don't have to spell it out in IE. Same with programming, the code is sensitive so if you were to exclude (let's say a space between values) then the code won't work. The correct shorthand CSS would be:
Code:
<td colspan="7" style="background:#00529b url(http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com/images/reduce-reuse-recycle_03.jpg) no-repeat bottom right">
Yada yada</td>
Compare this code with yours in post #1.