Adding padding to the category links in sidebar

[mickyholmes]

Hello,
I'm trying to add a little padding to the links in the category sidebar but I can't understand why it won't work! It seems that I can add padding left and right but not top and bottom.

I notice that in the html these links are marked up as a table, has this got something to do with it? I can style the contact us and site map links further down fine, but not the category links.

i've tried all sorts of things but can't add top or bottom padding to the links.

here's a link to the site.
(the yellow boxes are only there for myself, so that I can see what I'm targeting... i intend to turn them off.)



Please help someone, this is driving me crackers!

Thanks,
Michael