forum corners are frustrating!

[Jay Krupp]

http://www.rhymenreason.net/testboard

As you can see, my problem lies in the top corners. The background exceeds past the corners rather than having the corners hugging their respective edges. Additionally, I cannot figure out how to connect this table to the one above it, because that purple space is enough to make me want to cause harm.

My current coding for that section goes as follows:

<!-- /toplinks -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center" background="{imagesfolder}/topbg.gif"><img align="left" src="{imagesfolder}/tlcorner.gif" border="0" nowrap><img align="right" src="{imagesfolder}/trcorner.gif" border="0" nowrap></td></tr>

Thank you in advance,
Jake