Spaces Between Quotes

[kiFF]

Right now, my quotes have big spaces between them for some reason:

http://politicity.net/showpost.php?p=3038&postcount=6

Here's what the code looks like:
Don't pay attention to this postI'm testing something out.

Just ignore me....Lol

That's not how I typed it though. I had spaces between the quotes and the text, but after pressing "Preview", it automatically put the quote and the text on the same line.

Anyway, why is it doing this? The quotes here don't look like that. The spacing shouldn't be so wide, it looks weird.

[Aken]

You've got a line break and about 8px worth of top margins. Something with your CSS or BBCode is doing it. Play around is the best I can suggest without seeing it.

[kiFF]

bbcode_quote template:

<div style="margin:3px; margin-top:5px; <if condition="$show['iewidthfix']">width: 100%;</if>">
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td><div class="quote" style="margin-bottom:2px">
<if condition="$show['username']">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">
<phrase 1="$username">$vbphrase[originally_posted_by_x]</phrase>
<if condition="$postid"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$postid#post$postid" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="$vbphrase[view_post]" /></a></if>
</div>
<blockquote class="bq" style="font-style:italic">$message</blockquote>
<else />
<blockquote class="bq" style="font-style:italic">$message</blockquote>
</if>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

And why is it automatically formatting it so the quote and text go on one line?

EDIT: Here's the CSS:

.quote {
margin:15px 10px;
background: url(images/misc/q.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;
padding-left:25px}
blockquote.bq {
font: italic 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
border-left:3px solid #ccc;
margin:0px;
padding:0 5px}