Setting a LARGE background footer/image - CSS

Hi all,
I am pretty new to CSS design and come from the old skool of table design :-(
I have a photoshop design that I have ALMOST completed converting into CSS. The final piece of the puzzle (really should have solved this first :-) ) is the footer - the design uses a rather large footer that seamlessly blends into the rest of this site. I have posted a pic of what the final design SHOULD look like and a pic of where I am at.
As you can see everything is in place apart from the footer. I am after some advice as to how I can place the footer so that the main content overlaps it and it blends into the background.
Thank you so much to anyone that can shed some light on this!
Tris

Hard to advise based on screenshots alone.
Can you upload the page and post a link so we can see the site?

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===============
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From: [email protected]
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Sent: 16 August 2006 13:14
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Subject: [SunRay-Users] How to set CAM Mode background wallpaper
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