Grid Background Image - css

I'm currently designing my Portfolio Website, and I've decided to implement a light Grid Pattern Background image, the squares are 32px.
The Problem I am having is keeping my content aligned to the grid pattern when resizing the browser window, when I make the browser larger, the content moves with it, and instead I want to fix the content in position, central and aligned with my grid pattern.
One thing I tried which actually made my content stay in position was
background:url (#) repeat center top;
but this messed up my grid image and started on half a square.
I have also tried the Margin:0 auto; to centre my content but again this doesn't align it to the grid lines....
So I am stuck...

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The page can be seen here: view-source:http://liquidpropane.io/hold/
It works right now exactly like I want except the buttons spill out the sides if the browser window is too short.
Thanks for the help Justin. In the end I did have to rethink the design. I wanted to keep the idea of using the background collages, but keep the responsive design. I moved the homepage logo out of the background image and into the banner section. Then I moved the important parts of the collage into the center part of the main image, and the less important parts to the sides. That way cropping at the sides will not matter. Finally I decided to remove the rounded text boxes out of sections 1 and 3. I will just use a small bit of landing page text (quite big in a thin font) on those pages and put the bulk of the content in sections 2 and 4. I have not added that text in yet, but the cleaned up version of the background and banner can be seen at http://liquidpropane.io/newhold
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