So why don't google upload their own recommended border for adsense users to use between ads (or 4/5 so you can customise a bit) and then there will be less controversy about this!
maybe it will give google an extra excuse to ban publishers. I guess I will stay away from images for my next few sites.
Because of the recent confusion with what's allowed and what isn't I removed the images I had close to ads on my myspace site two days ago and CTR went up by 1%