the problem was not that the color was a little off

the problem is that the bg color of the swf and the bg color of the html are slightly different from each other.

i think my solution will be to tile the background with tiny jpg's of the color.
the BG jpg will be produced in flash, so it should match the swf's BG color, no matter what computer it is viewed on.

i did this in this link:

http://www.jbsdesign.com/index1.html

this site is a work in progress, so you won't really be able to look around in the site to much.