equalmark on "Using Theme Options in CSS"

I am trying to offer some styling options in my theme options page. I have created theme options for the body color and this is retrievable with <?php echo get_option('st_bgcolor'); ?> which works fine when placed in my index.php file for example, but fails in my stylesheet which I have below:

<?php header("Content-type: text/css"); ?>
body {
	background-color: #<?php get_option('st_bgcolor'); ?>;
}

I have also included the following in the header.php page to call the new stylesheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/style-options.php" type="text/css" media="screen" />

The stylesheet works and styles the page until I add the <?php echo get_option)’st_bgcolor’); ?> which is where it fails.

Anybody any ideas why? Or perhaps how to fix it? Or even another way of doing this?

Thanks,

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