Align primary and secondary links vertically

Dear Marinelli-Team,

this is a great theme I am running on several websites now. Thanks for your great work, I really appreciate that!

One question: when trying to vertically align the primary and secondary links via styles, it seems the secondary links do not react on some parameters. In fact, e.g. setting the width for a li.menu entry in secondary links has no effect at all. Also e.g. text-align: center has not effect.

#submenu ul li a {
color:#FFFFFF;
padding:0 60px 0 0;
text-align:center;
width:150px;
}

The intended goal is to vertically align the links in the primary and secondary links section above and below the banner to make the page look more neat. For the primary links section all of those modifications work perfectly, e.g. the following code aligns the links centered and offsets the whole block to the left in order to show the first menu entry vertically aligned with the left border of the logo.

#utilities #plinks ul li a {
background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #000000;
color:#FFFFFF;
display:block;
padding:0;
text-align:center;
width:110px;
}

ul.links {
margin:0 0 0 -40px;
padding:0;
}

Thanks for having a look or a little hint, I have been messing around with that for hours, scrolling back and forth in firebug.

Cheers,
Boro