<font color="lightblue">Are there any sites around that offer free background images ?? (ie. download, host yourself without any copyright worries)</font>

For like desktops and stuff?
try... http://www.themexp.org/cat_login.php

<font color="lightblue">And stuff, yes [img]tongue.gif[/img]
It`s for a website i`m in the process of building ;)

Oh, and "The Page cannot be Displayed" </font>

Sorry, I musta broke it when I went there [img]tongue.gif[/img] Wouldn't a search on google or the like be what you are after?

<font color="lightblue">I`ve never found any search engine to be very reliable, myself :| </font>

Well, you may not like search engines but where do you think the people who answer to your thread get their links from, huh? Most likely a search engine [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Downunda is right, you should try searching on Google, it's very good.

http://www.google.nl/search?q=free+b...59-1&hl=nl&lr=

<font color="lightblue">How`d I know someone would say that ?? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
My only problem with search engines is that I can`t seem to type the right things in them... always get completely irrelevant things- type Cheats, get cooking :| </font>

Dude, try this:
A Website

Try Here too:
Links To Graphics Goodies
Peapod Design (logo) has some really cool background tiles,
PSP Interactive Zone (logo) has a search option that will give you a list of sites that host backgrounds & background images.
Plus there are a bunch of other links you can check out to see what's there [img]smile.gif[/img]