Image Location in Modified Usertitle

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In reference to this thead.

So, I made the modification to the template code as was described to me in the above mentioned thread. However, some of my users have small images as their usertitle. The problem that arises then is that the image is positioned in such a fashion:

Originally Posted by Example 1

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In other words, the image goes up farther than the text, which makes sense, but I don't want it to do that. The best possible scenario would be that the height of the image were somehow centered on the text as such:

Originally Posted by Example 2

Any ideas on how I could accomplish this?