Design check, please

Hey, I’m cooking up a small scale site for my personal use. It’ll just be another crappy about me / portfolio site, with some little personal sections in between. I don’t have the recognition or reason to make this into a full-blown corporate website, so critique it as a micro-site.

I’m not very happy about the header box, but I like the menu and content boxes. Here are two versions, not sure which I like better, opinions will be good.

http://www.jkwdesign.com/4.gif
Version with spikey bg stripes

http://www.jkwdesign.com/4_2.gif
Version with plain straight stripes.

  1. Which would be best to stick to?
  2. What else should be done?

ps, this will be a full-Flash site.