is there a way I can add an image rotator like for my background? where it changes from one image and then fades to another image?
that really isn't what I'm looking for
Can you please give a link of any website that's using as you've specified ? The link above might do exactly the same.
You want one for the background of the forum? I've never seen that done before. There are two ways I can think of doing it - one of which requires a lot of edits and the other which involves the use of inline CSS.