Originally posted by riis
You can use css:
background-repeat: no-repeat

If you do this, and you have a large page, with scrollbars, you might add background-attachment: scroll.

I don't know how well these properties are supported, but AFAIK they are in IE5+ and Mozilla/NS6+.

(Now we're talking on backgrounds: background-position is incorrectly implemented in IE. It only works correctly for page backgrounds, but not for backgrounds of tables, div-tags, etc.)
where I have to write: background-repeat: no repeat ???