=P  Yeah, it has to simply be bad luck.  But the 
cel that I ordered came with a background--  The 
image that I got from the dealer was cropped so 
you couldn't see the production number, but 
generally a cel doesn't come with more than one 
background, right?  So if the cel that I ordered 
came with a background...and my friend's also 
came with the same background... can you assume 
that it is indeed the same cel?

Thanks for the advice in maybe contacting my 
aquantaince about possibly purchacing the cel 
back from her, but I certainly doubt that she 
would do that, since we're both major fans of 
this one character...  lol  Plus out of sheer 
respect of her own collection, I don't want to 
try and take away something that she was lucky 
enough to end up getting.  lol  ^^;;;

Rekka