I have developed a VisualForce page that renders as PDF and have been able to successfully include stylesheets, images, etc.

Unfortunately if I try to include a background image, it does not get displayed. 

I have uploaded the image as a static resource, and reference it in my css as follows:

.paid {
background-image: url('paid_img');
}

The css file is included as  an apex:stylesheet with value {!$Resource.stylesheet}

On the Visualforce page I created a div tag with class "paid", but no luck displaying the image. I also tried to use style="background:image url('{!$Resource.paid_img}')" in my div tag, but no luck either.

If I create an apex:image tag with value {!$Resource.paid_img} the image gets displayed, so I really don't know what the problem could be.

Any help much appreciated!

I have a user who just installed the Office Connector from inside SF (in the Desktop Integration section of Personal Setup), and it appears to have installed a version 4.0 of the toolkit.

He's getting the "Can't find project or library" error that others have reported getting as a result of a mismatch between Version 2.0 of the toolkit and Version 6.16 of the Excel Connector.

Has there been an updated version of the Excel Connector that will work with Version 4.0 of the toolkit? If not, how do I downgrade him back to Version 3.0, since the only version that will download from SF setup is version 4.0?  

This is not the most technical of users, and I'm supporting him from 200 miles away, so I can't just go to his computer and do it for him. So asking him to go to the Developer Toolkit type sites and figure out what to do is asking for disaster. Please help!