Using an image for website background.

[david_3rdday]

I have a custom template that I want the background to be an image repeated over and over. When I put the css to do just that in the body tag sitebuilder doesn't replace the $theme$ variable with the correct path it just leaves it as $theme$. So when you go to the publish website you don't see the image background that you are suppose to. I worked around this by just telling it to look in the image directory with out the $theme$. I would like to use the $theme$ variable. Just wondering if anybody has come across this is and found a fix.

Thanks

David