"padding-right" padding doesn’t work in div

Is there some easy way to set a r.h. text margin?

I have a series of div containers (leftmain, centermain, rightmain) and for some reason when I try to set padding in the leftmain div container (to add padding to the r.h. side of that container), it doesn’t work. My page validates using Firefox local validation but doesn’t render correctly. Instead, the text from that container simply spills over and is hidden under the “rightmain” div container.

The site is
[url]http://www.L17arts.com/testindex.html[/url]

Also, for some reason (perhaps related??) when I tried to float left a picture in the leftmain div container using this tag:

[CODE]<img src=”images/celebrate_america_star1.jpg” width=”188″ height=”171″ alt=”celebrate” />[/CODE]

I cannot get the text to align at the top of the image.

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