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here's the problem

The limitations in this method deeply conflicts with the layout of the site I want to build.

Here's an illustration with the main problem:

If the box is standard length, shading, gradients, and so on look great:

http://www.legaljustice.net/testinterface/metal.html

Recoding and making it a background is perfect:

http://www.legaljustice.net/testinterface/metal1.html

But: If the box is short, you can see where it is "squashed" - looks bad:

http://www.legaljustice.net/testinterface/metal2.html

And, if hte box is long, it really really looks bad:

http://www.legaljustice.net/testinterface/metal3.html

This means to me that I can't have a cool metal effect down the sides of my pages... at least not with any lighting effects.  Is this correct?

There is no way to do this using better code or a different photoshop method?

Thanks