okay..so i managed, with great difficulty, to get the leave your comment heading to be left aligned. the text align thingy u told me rev- it worked.

i still have a few more problems, and this is desperate plea to anyone who can help me
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these are the things i want to modify (with reference to this page: http://rohitkumar.org/blog/index.php?p=29#comments):

1. the heading x comments (x is the no. of comments) nshould be aligned with the story content

2. "The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://rohitkumar.org/blog/wp-trackback.php/29" - this piece of text has no margin

3. the comments have a larger margin than the story content margin, alignment issue once again.

4. this piece of text: "RSS feed for comments on this post." is unaligned.

5. the "leave a comment" heading is not aligned

6. "Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title="" rel=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>"- no margin again

7. the "Your Comment " heading for the comment input text field is still not aligned.

8. the title of the name. email and uri input fields are lower than the input fields.
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if it helps i found this php file called wp-comments.php. here is the code:

Code:
<?php // Do not delete these lines
	if ('wp-comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
		die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
	$req = get_settings('require_name_email');
	if (($withcomments) or ($single)) {

        if (!empty($post->post_password)) { // if there's a password
            if ($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_'.$cookiehash] != $post->post_password) {  // and it doesn't match the cookie
?>
<p><?php _e("Enter your password to view comments."); ?><p>
<?php
				return;
            }
        }

 		$comment_author = (isset($_COOKIE['comment_author_'.$cookiehash])) ? trim($_COOKIE['comment_author_'.$cookiehash]) : '';
        $comment_author_email = (isset($_COOKIE['comment_author_email_'.$cookiehash])) ? trim($_COOKIE['comment_author_email_'.$cookiehash]) : '';
 		$comment_author_url = (isset($_COOKIE['comment_author_url_'.$cookiehash])) ? trim($_COOKIE['comment_author_url_'.$cookiehash]) : '';

        $comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_post_ID = '$id' AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY comment_date");
?>

<!-- You can start editing here. -->

<h2 id="comments"><?php comments_number(__("Comments"), __("1 Comment"), __("% Comments")); ?> 
<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) { ?>
<a href="#postcomment" title="<?php _e("Leave a comment"); ?>">&raquo;</a>
<?php } ?>
</h2>
<?php if ('open' == $post->ping_status) { ?>
<p><?php _e("The <acronym title=\"Uniform Resource Identifier\">URI</acronym> to TrackBack this entry is:"); ?> <em><?php trackback_url() ?></em></p>
<?php } ?>


<?php if ($comments) { ?>
<ol id="commentlist">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>
	<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
	<?php comment_text() ?>
	<p><cite><?php comment_type(); ?> <?php _e("by"); ?> <?php comment_author_link() ?> — <?php comment_date() ?> @ <a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"><?php comment_time() ?></a></cite> <?php edit_comment_link(__("Edit This"), ' |'); ?></p>
	</li>

<?php } // end for each comment ?>
</ol>
<?php } else { // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
	<p><?php _e("No comments yet."); ?></p>
<?php } ?>
<p><?php comments_rss_link(__("<abbr title=\"Really Simple Syndication\">RSS</abbr> feed for comments on this post.")); ?></p>
<h2 id="postcomment"><?php _e("Leave a comment"); ?></h2>
<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) { ?>
<p><?php _e("Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, <acronym title=\"Hypertext Markup Language\">HTML</acronym> allowed:"); ?> <code><?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></code></p>

<form action="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
	<p>
	  <input type="text" name="author" id="author" class="textarea" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="28" tabindex="1" />
	   <label for="author"><?php _e("Name"); ?></label> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?>
	<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
	<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); ?>" />
	</p>

	<p>
	  <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="28" tabindex="2" />
	   <label for="email"><?php _e("E-mail"); ?></label> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?>
	</p>

	<p>
	  <input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="28" tabindex="3" />
	   <label for="url"><?php _e("<acronym title=\"Uniform Resource Identifier\">URI</acronym>"); ?></label>
	</p>

	<p>
	  <label for="comment"><?php _e("Your Comment"); ?></label>
	<br />
	  <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="70" rows="4" tabindex="4"></textarea>
	</p>

	<p>
	  <input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Say It!"); ?>" />
	</p>
</form>
<?php } else { // comments are closed ?>
<p><?php _e("Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time."); ?></p>
<?php } ?>

<?php // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head
}
?>