?.?_Random writes...
at 7:02:41pm on 10/14/09

ummm have we met?

fermble writes...
at 5:41:29pm on 10/14/09

And yes, the built-in formatting is the only method you can use, aside from changing the dimension of your bg.

fermble writes...
at 5:40:07pm on 10/14/09

My profile has a trick, the banner is there and spaces out everything down 960px, but it's invisible, so you can see through it to the bg that lies behind it.
The only way to make the bg work on here (the way mine looks) is to have an image that fits within the size guidelines, and on your bg you space everything out the way you want to. My bg image actually runs on for quite a while, but it gets cut off once the comments stop. So that's another thing to figure into how you draw out your bg image.

Synthlight writes...
at 2:31:58pm on 9/29/09

First person to post on your wall.

Cheers,
Synthlight