"the background image is just that a background image - the border is a border for the text which is why it defaulted to the text, and why you can't get it to apply to the background since its part of the foreground... simple eh?"

No. It can act independently of the text. Just not independently enough, and in a non-intuitive way

"in what way do they do this? 'haywire' is not a very helpful terminology... "

Try it on two of your nine monitors, with one of them set at a different resolution. Perfectly aligned text, background and borders are completely misaligned when dragging the product's main window from one monitor to another.

Better yet, don't bother answering if you don't have as much experience with the product as I do. I have been using it for two days.