Thats because the categories on the right (which is the SMF forum) have a padding-top applied to one, or more of the CSS class attributes attached to one of the many elements.  I faced this issue already here with Dream Portal, when fixing the board index for the DP collapse/expand effect.  You'll need to edit this manually for, either the CSS class rules in the index.css file, or it might be better to hard-code it into a style attribute on the elements for BoardIndex.template.php.  Basically, you'll want to apply a padding-top: 0px;  So you can figure out how the categories are being displayed in BoardIndex.template.php and see that within the foreach loop, there are many <div> elements that have classes assigned.  You can test this by doing this 1 by 1 until you find the problem yourself.

I had a very difficult time pin-pointing the exact divs that were doing this.  I believe it might have been more than 1 that caused this that needed to be changed.

You can also try removing the class values to see how the content changes.  If it goes up more than it is within that class value.  If it's still not perfect than it has to do with more class values that you'll need to fix.

Also, just so this is clear, this is not a Dream Portal bug, but rather the way SMF displays their forum categories.  They place a padding around it with drops it down some.

Cheers

Well, I'm always open for ideas...

yeah, good question, was wondering the same  a week ago...

Yeah well the thing was is that I didn't know [page] was a code to input, Like I said the only thing stated of any commands was the [board] and [topic] directions. [PAGE] was the term I was looking for, and I thank you greatly.

You're welcome guys, marking topic solved.