Thread:Project:Support desk/Increase whitespace between list and section title?

This has bugged me for awhile: the amount of white space between regular text and an adjacent section heading is different than the amount of white space between the end of a list and an adjacent section heading. Here's an example:

{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"

Section 1
Here is a really long and exciting line of text.

Section 2

 * 1) Here is a really long and exciting line of text.

Section 3
Blah blah blah...

Section 1
Here is a really long and exciting line of text.

Section 2

 * 1) Here is a really long and exciting line of text.

Section 3
Blah blah blah...
 * }

The upper red area is 22 pixels high; the lower red area is 17 pixels high. Is there any CSS I can apply to my site that would make both areas the same height?

Edit: I should add that I'm using MediaWiki 1.17 with all of the default styles and viewing the site in Firefox 6.0.2.