For your theme Khaleesi, I'm having troule changing the color of the background and getting my side image to stay there. Any ideas as to what this could be? Thanks.

I’ll say change it in the appearance tab, and also change it in the meta tags. 

So for the background

<meta name=”color:background” content=”#FFECA4”/>

change the color in the to the one you want.

Do the same thing for the sidebar picture. Hope this helps