Well, yes, I want the container to be able to expand without bound, but if I put it inside a <div> with limited dimensions, won't it inherit those boundaries? I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, though- What I really want the segments to do is float, so that they will just wrap around when they reach the edge of the container, but when I try this, it causes them to go back behind the background. If I want to *force* in a new row, I'll just make a new container.

I have been poring over CSS literature for a couple of days, and though I can now almost everything I need to, this particular problem still eludes me.

(Forgive my repellently n00b problem, please, but I need to get off of this drug we call <table>, and I'm no longer concerned about revealing my ignorance.)