[font=verdana]There’s two things going on here. The first is that the letter glyphs in most fonts are less than 100% of maximum height. Even ‘tall’ letters don’t go right up to the very top of the space allocated, so you’ll always get a pixel or two of extra gap at the top. The second is that, with a line-spacing of 160%, that means that the vertical space allocated is increased and the text is centred vertically within that space, so it’s another pixel or two further down than it would otherwise have been.
There’s no particularly elegant solution, but you could pull the text up by a few pixels (or push the image down) with position:relative;, or add a few rows of transparent pixels to the top of the image.[/font]