contact tables and opacity

Hi,
Im fairly new to CSS and basically what css I have used on my ‘my space’ is copied script found on free web sites..
What I wanted was a background picture for my contact table, and to lose the text at the top saying ‘contacting name’
I initially found a script that seemed to allow this – though after awhile I noticed that all the text links were disabled so yes it got rid of the ‘contacting name’ bit but it also got rid of my links. On a side note when the mouse moved over a link (when they were working) it gave a hover background color which I dont want)
So I found another website that gives me coding that allows both the links to stay up and the contacting bit to go away and now my problem is its not centered on my picture anymore.

Heres the code:
.contactTable {width:300px; padding:0px; height:180px; background-image:url(“http://www.geocities.com/aqcheryl/contact.jpg“);
background-position:center;
background-color:transparent;}
table.contacttable td table td.text a img
{
visibility: hidden;
}
table.contacttable td.text
{
display:none;
}
table.contacttable table td.text
{
background-color:transparent;
display: block;
}

If I could just get a couple of breaks at the top of wherever the links begin, they would move down, or perhaps align:center so that it would match up again with my picture, and Id be happy. The only other option I found to do this was to shorten the height of the table but it cut off my picture drastically.

that and if anyone can direct me where I can learn how to use css to make tables have an opacity (my sister has a myspace and she needs transparent tables due to the background she wants)

heres my myspace url: [url]http://myspace.com/aqcheryl[/url] and hers is [url]http://myspace.com/rammryche[/url] (hers is not done in any form I wanted to change the opacity on the tables first..)

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