You are thinking of CSS. You can try putting this between the <head></head> tags of your page.<style type="text/css">
body{background-repeat: no-repeat}
</style>
But before you start celebrating the downside is that it is poorly supported. In all versions of NN prior to NN6 your page will be a mess. It will eithr ignore it and just tile it anyway, but it can be worse than that.
And the news is not so wonderful in IE either - it will not repeat, it will just sit in the top left corner. You can get into using x and y coordinates to position it in IE but it will then look just right in one resolution and screen size and totally wrong in all others.
Putting bgproperties="fixed" in the body tag just does what FP calls a watermark.
So Gil was right - you can't. 
Investigate his suggestion that you use a table bg somewher to acheive your effect.
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[This message has been edited by abbeyvet (edited 04-01-2001).]
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