Cycles not rendering with background image So two problems I am having. First, I have a background image with it set to all views. I went into the node editor and added the image and connected it to the alpha over node along with the render layers node. No background image! it does show on up the camera view (numpad 0). 

Second problem I'm having is that the side of the cylinder is all charcoal looking when the texture is set to be just gray. The gray rings are suppose to be mirrored glass and reflect the background, that may be working? Hopefully it reflects my background image once it's working. 

I am on Blender 2.69
One thing is the background image you see in the view port to guide with your setup and another is the background you render. Here is the setup to create a background image in your rendered scene.

Regarding your second question, this type of setup wont reflect the background in your final render, to do that you should follow the previous answer about HDRI.