[scoobie]

The only luck I've had in removing the horizontal table cell to get rid of the space is to do this to my code in head.tpl with no closing html comment:-

<!--
{if $main ne "fast_lane_checkout"}
<tr>
<td class="HeadLine" height="22">
{if $usertype eq "C"}
{ include file="customer/search.tpl" }
{/if}

This forces the category box right up under my banner. I don't understand why this works because I know Smarty comments are {* *}. I am still commenting out all other dead space so the bottom help box sits just before the footer, but I've had no luck finding the right one.