[SOLVED] Ghost in the center column - padding won't work.

Hello

Setting up a new site using latest wp + atahualpa 3.6.7. No plugins active at this time.
I should note that I went to the styles folder and imported one of the default styles.

I've been doing some basic tweaks; php5 (1and1 hosting), rotating images in header (applied BUGFIX 367-01: Odd effects when 'CSS: Compress' = 'Yes').

Then I went to center column style and added 2 lines, I wanted to change the background color and do some padding to the left.
Currently it looks like this:
background: #ffffff;
padding-left: 20px

The padding does not work and the background color only worked when placed before the padding...

Any ideas would be appreciated.