I'm on a roll now. I've got plenty of work done on the site, and it's starting to shape up a little more nicely. I'm also slowly (slowly!) learning about CSS, and how to tweak it.
For example, below each story is a little footer. It was originally offset from the left edge of the story. I hunted around for the edge, and found that if I could somehow disable the padding for only that first item element, I'd be all set. And guess what? I could!
ul.links li.first
{
padding: 0 0;
}