JScrollPane and TitledBorder spacing

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I have an issue with using a TitledBorder on a JScrollPane. The problem is that the border is noticeably larger than the JScrollPane inside of it. The problem can be clearly seen in these two images:
What the problem looks like: http://www.areath.com/images/ex1.jpg
What it should look like: http://www.areath.com/images/ex2.jpgIf the title is placed on top of the border, the problem is fixed, but it just doesn't look 'right' in this context. Obviously, the title in the border is interfering with the spacing inside of the border, but I was hoping to find a simple way to work around the problem without creating a custom border.
I am using the JGoodies Looks look and feel version 1.3.1 (http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/libraries.html)
Thanks!

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.applet.Applet;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.border.*;
public class TestBorderClass extends JApplet {
 private class CustomTitledBorder extends TitledBorder{
 int offset = 0;
 String secondTitle = "";
 public CustomTitledBorder(Border border,
 String title,
 int titleJustification,
 int titlePosition,
 Font titleFont,
 Color titleColor){
 super( border,"", titleJustification, titlePosition, titleFont, titleColor);
 this.titleColor = titleColor;
 this.offset = offset;
 this.secondTitle = title;
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 Graphics g,
 int x,
 int y,
 int width,
 int height){
 //super.paintBorder(c, g, x, y, width, height);
 FontMetrics fontmetric = getFontMetrics(titleFont);
 Color color = g.getColor();
 Color lineColor = color;
 if((border.getClass())== javax.swing.border.LineBorder.class){
 LineBorder lineb = (LineBorder) border;
 lineColor = lineb.getLineColor();
 g.setFont(titleFont);
 int x1, y1, x2, y2;
 x1 = x + 2;
 y1 = y + 2;
 x2 = width - 4;
 y2 = height - 4;
 int half = (int)(fontmetric.getHeight()/2);
 g.setColor(lineColor);
 g.drawLine(x1, y1, 10, y1 );
 g.setColor(getTitleColor());
 g.drawString(secondTitle, 10, half);
 g.setColor(lineColor);
 g.drawLine(10 + fontmetric.stringWidth(secondTitle),y1, x2, y1);
 g.drawLine(x2, y1, x2, y2 );
 g.drawLine(x2, y2, x1, y2 );
 g.drawLine(x1, y2, x1, y1 );
 public void init() {
 JEditorPane area = new JEditorPane("text/html", "");
 area.setEditable(false);
 area.setOpaque(false);
 area.setText("<html><center>** This is the non-opaque JEditorPane ** With HTML formatting!</center> ");
 JScrollPane scroller = new JScrollPane(area,
 JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS,
 JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
 scroller.setOpaque(false);
 scroller.getViewport().setOpaque(false);
 scroller.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(698, 110));
 scroller.setBorder(new CustomTitledBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.white), "Titled Border Test", TitledBorder.LEFT, TitledBorder.TOP,
 new Font("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD, 14), Color.white));
 setContentPane(scroller);
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Here is my site: http://lauraportfolio.hostoi.com/index.html (If you are using Google Chrome you can right click and select "view page source" to see the html of the page)
See how the menu button are justified the left of the light pink menu bar? How can I put them in the center?
I would like to know how to center the menu, and then add spacing between the buttons.
At one point I added spacing between the buttons using CSS padding, but when I did that the last menu button, "Graphics" ran off the pink menu bar and became invisible and all kinds of crazy ugly stuff!
Below is what I beleive to be all of the CSS styling for the menu:
#menubar
          width: 900px;
          height: 72px;
          padding: 0;
          background-color: transparent;
          background-image: url(transparentpink.png);
          background-repeat: repeat;
ul#menu, ul#menu li
{ float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;}
ul#menu li
          list-style: none;
          padding-right: 0px;
          padding-left: 0px;
          margin-right: auto;
          margin-left: auto;
ul#menu li a
          letter-spacing: 0.1em;
          display: block;
          float: left;
          height: 37px;
          text-align: center;
          color: #f0dbca;
          text-transform: none;
          text-decoration: none;
          background: transparent;
          font-family: bonvenoCF, verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
          font-size: 150%;
          font-style: normal;
          font-weight: normal;
          font-variant: normal;
          padding-top: 29px;
          padding-right: 26px;
          padding-bottom: 6px;
          padding-left: 26px;
ul#menu li a:hover, ul#menu li.selected a, ul#menu li.selected a:hover
          color: #F0DBCA;
          background-color: #F1836A;

PART 1
So as long as the width of the buttons plus the padding doesn't go over 900px it won't run off the page?
Right.   The "box model" in CSS works like this:
width + padding + border = actual visible/rendered width of box
height + padding + border = actual visible/rendered height of box.
PART 2
And do you know how I can center the whole thin instead of it being left-aligned on the menu bar?
You can't center floated menu items. The best you can do is make your menu fit the entire width of the container (or as close as you can) as described in PART 1 above.
To center your #menu container, use margin:0 auto;
To center text, use text-align:center on the #menu li a.
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