IE7 is clipping my text. How do I adjust its attitude?

Question

A few days ago I re-skinned my website. Development of this skin was primarily done using safari, and as expected, it all renders fine using firefox and opera. I\'ve had to make

Answer 1

I think the problem is with the padding. I tried removing a "padding: 3px" style and it worked properly. Previously it was not showing anything. Paul Hart's answer showed me that.
Probably also removing/overriding margin properties may also help.