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both excellent pieces of advice!

Mike, the addition of the width qualifier definitely provided some guiding light on the alignment issues. It’s not perfect yet, but at least it feels like I’m getting closer to ‘aligned’.

I’ve installed firebug as well, which is equally elucidating. I’ll play around a bit more with base.css in the member theme, and will try to whip this thing into shape!