Design problems with imported theme

if you mean the space between the comment boxes, that is controlled by:

.commentlist li {
	margin: 15px 0 10px;
	padding: 5px 5px 10px 10px;
	list-style: none;
	font-weight: bold;
	font: 0.9em 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
}

you can change the ‘margin’; the figures are in the sequence: topmargin, left/rightmargin, bottommargin.

the backgrounde images are in the folder:
https://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/test/wp-content/themes/movie-theater/images/

by the way: are you aware that you can style you google ads to match the style of your page?
that is – to me – more distracting than the style of your search box ??

Thanks for the reply!

I actually figured out the comments error. The code that was already present for next and previous comment links was what was causing the spacing, and I yanked it and it’s great. Not sure what the point of those were. Maybe for paging through comments?

Ah, thanks for that. I kept looking in an “images” folder and got nowhere, that’s great.

Google ads – They definitely need some tweaking, though when they’re running flash or graphic ads, it looks sweet. I wish the theme accommodated a 728×90 versus the 300×250 though, as I hate having that be the lead unit. Oh well.. How much can I style them? You mean setting background colors, etc?

yes, background color, font color, individual color of the link etc – from within the google page where you make the ads.