Line breaks and page layouts

Firstly let me say a big thank you for this fantastic theme, this is my first proper attempt at any web design and it is proving easier than I thought it would be, largely due to the Atahualpa theme.

This forum has proved very helpful too and I have resisted posting any queries til now as the answers can generally be found with a quick search, but now I have a problem that I think should be easy to solve but couldn't find the answers here (probably because most people could do it with their eyes closed).

I want to have pages with thumbnail images on the left and corresponding text to the right of each image, but i cant get the alignment to work. My attempts are here and here I have tried using line breaks to move things down but nothing seems to happen.

Any help much appreciated!

Matt