Extra space between content and footer – HELP!

Whoa, okay. I think I just discovered why that space was there, but I have a new problem! ??

I based my layout from the Green Marinee template. I couldn’t find a find to add a header image without having it overlap the sidebar, but finally I changed the sidebar properties to make it appear further down the page. This is the code for that:

#right {
float: right;
width: 180px;
padding: 250px 30px;

The 250px would be from the top of the entire page. So it was appearing correctly with the header. Now when I change that to 0px, the annoying space disappears at the bottom, so that must have been the cause. Unfortunately, it also makes my sidebar overlap the header image. Ahh! How do I fix it? ??

And I fixed it. I’m not sure how this is possible, but I actually didn’t change anything — I just deleted the tags, reloaded my site, re-added the tags, reloaded again, and somehow it began to work. The tags now read:

#right {
float: right;
width: 180px;
padding: 280px 20px 40px 30px;

It looks exactly the way I wanted it to. I’ll keep this here in case anyone else ever has this problem. I guess if it does, you can always try just deleting and re-adding. Maybe it refreshes something deep within WP somehow. ??