center vertically Options

[rayyyy]

The text in side my <h1></h1> codes isn't centering vertically. its at the top of the header and i don't know how to fix it. i've tried everything.

this is the code for it.

CODE

h1 {
background-image: url(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a208/Rachel_891/h1.png);
margin-top: 1px;
margin-bottom: 1px;
padding-left: 25px;
margin:0px;
height:16px;
font-size:6pt;
text-align: left;
font-family:Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica;
font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: 1px;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

please help.