Flakey CSS in IE

[kidsleep]

I'm trying to create a 1 column, multiple row table with the same background image for each row. Everything is peachy keen in FireFox and Netscape 4.7 but in IE 5.0 the first row has the image yet all the others appear at random with page reloads. I have about 95% of my visitors using IE so of course I need to get this.

Here is a sample row of my table:

<td height="25" align="middle" class="menu"><a href="http://www.website.com/main.php" class="link">Home</a></td>

and here is the css class for "menu":

td.menu{text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background-image:url(menu-bg.jpg); font-size:12px; background-color:#993399}

any help would be appreciated.

TIA

[scoutt]

you already said the answer in the post title :P css is flakey in IE.

ok, so, why don't you put the background in the table instead of the cell? or are they different per cell?