Hi Jerry!
THANKS A MILLION!!! The issues are fixed! Well almost! I mean, if you see the website in IE 8 (or any version of IE) you will see the bottom shows about 5 pixels of gap and the background image shows through. When the mouse hovers on the footer it expands and touches the bottom covering the space!! Weird isn't it?! Have I still made some mistake? Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome shows the website perfectly! No white space issues there! Can you please check the website on IE and make suggestions? I may have missed out a tiny point in implementation!
But THANK YOU SO MUCH!! You were of great help!
Mozart66