[balinor]

skin1/modules/manufacturers/customer_manufacturers_list.tpl

That one uses ItemsList as the style, try adding the padding to that.

Help.tpl actually uses VertMenuItems, but only in the link. You might try putting a span tag around the help menu items. So the first item would look like this in help.tpl:

<span class="VertMenuItems">{$lng.lbl_contact_us}</span>

You could also just try adding another
tag, but that might be TOO much spacing....