I changed the top to this. It puts the images at the top, but the spaces are still in there, haven't played with it enough to take out the spaces, but you will get an idea of what it looks like. Also, on the above (last post), remove the last   and it will remove the space after the image.

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<span style="float: right">
{$pageprint}
</span>
<span style="float:right;padding:5px">

{if $prevlinkstart}
{$prevlinkstart}
<img style="vertical-align: middle" src="{$config.BASE_URL}/images/{$style_array.general}/previous.gif" alt="{$lang.PREV_THREAD}" border="0" {$images.previous}/>
{$prevlinkstop}
{/if}

{$currentlinkstart}
<img style="vertical-align: middle" src="{$config.BASE_URL}/images/{$style_array.general}/all.gif" alt="{$alttext}" border="0" {$images.all}/>
{$currentlinkstop}

{if $nextlinkstart}
{$nextlinkstart}
<img style="vertical-align: middle" src="{$config.BASE_URL}/images/{$style_array.general}/next.gif" alt="{$lang.NEXT_THREAD}" border="0" {$images.next}/>
{$nextlinkstop}
{/if}
</span>