some template coding help

[Dark Rider]

hey this is my first time trying to code and design a vb template and im running into some trouble.

here is kinda what i want the front page on vb to look like:
http://drdesigns.talkhost.info/vbtemplate.jpg
yeah i know it looks alittle messy i gotta clean up my psds :-D

but im having some trouble and right now it looks like this:
http://talkhost.info/test/index.php

i want the tcat to be 28px height but it is more i think thats cause there seems to be padding or margin on the collapse_tcat.gif same problem with the thead but i want that one to be 20 px height.

also the menu options i want to make the font bigger i made a new css class called .vbmenu_control2 because .vbmenu_control i think was used for the nav and somthing esle but i didnt want to change that somthing else. as u can see the spot where it tells u where u are on the forum has the background of the menu how do i fix that? im guessing you guys are going to want to see the coding to help me on some of this just let me know what files you need and ill post the codes here.

thanks for your help guys!