Originally Posted by Bama

Without seeing the site I can't be specific, but why can't you use something like this?

<tr>
<td background="whatever.gif"><a href="whatever_link.html"><img src="transparent.gif" width="" height="" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
</tr>

You'll need a transparent gif for the table cell content image and make the height and width of it to match the whatever.gif size attributes