Sidebar Images

Hi
I am trying to display an image that’s displayed behind each Category title on my sidebar.
The image is included with the theme as sidebar_title.gif but is obvioulsy not displaying
Are these the codes I should be editing?

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<div id="sidebar_back">

<li>
      <h2 class="sidebartitle"><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>

<ul>
        <?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>
      </ul>
</li>
  </div>

If yes what do I replace(and with what) in order to keep the category names with the image displayed behind them ? or will I need to create an image for each category with the category name on the image.
Hope that doesn’t sound comfusing