right, in firebug this is what I get for body classes when I look at the ‘contact page’ which uses the ‘contact template’
<body class="page page-id-1833 page-template page-template-contact_page-php logged-in admin-bar">
but I still cannot change that background image to just affect that page template without it affecting other page templates. Even when I try to remove bits and pieces of what wordpress spits out for the body class