Layout issue with blog page using mostly static pages on site.

I’m converting a site to WordPress 2.7. I’m working off of the SEO Basics theme, which is based on Sandbox.

This is the site:

https://blalocktest.com

Each static page has an image abutting the nav menu (those will be different images on each page on the finished site). I did this by setting the upper padding to 0 in #content on the style sheet.

This creates a problem for the blog page, however, since it just starts out with the blog title jammed up against the bottom of the nav menu:

https://blalocktest.com/blog/

I’ve tried searching for a way to get a bit of space between the title and the top of the page without affecting the other pages. Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to find anything so far. I probably just don’t know enough to use the right search terms in Google.

I think if I could add an image to the page that displays the blog posts, that would be ideal. I thought there was a way to do this, but no luck on searching so far.

Alternately, styling the text on the title itself would be OK too.

If anyone can point me in the right direction, it’d be greatly appreciated!