Header Issue: Dreamer for Dusty Foot

[mergatrude]

Hi!

I'm tizzying up the month_of_june with a banner, however I can't figure out how to get the banner to either:

1) move down in the header so it's below (and no longer covered by) the "Recent Entries/Archive/Member Posts/Tags/Memories/Profile" links bar, or

2) move the links bar so it's below the header, or

3) if I put the banner in using

#canvas {
background-image: url(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mergatrude/1028676/101700/101700_original.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: top center;
padding-top: 200px;
} (snaffled from another post to this community)

how do I remove the dark grey header bar?

(Level of expertise = c&p code and change the numbers)

Thank you kindly!