Sorry to quote again, but I re-read this suggestion and realized what you were talking about. in my system.def, cell.spacing = 0 made the janky-looking spacing you noticed. I changed it to cell.spacing = -1 and it looked like this. I like this look better, but the bottoms of the cells aren't present as the top of the cell below overlaps with it.
So, then I changed cell.size = 7,7 to cell.size=7,8.
it did wonders. thank you for the feedback and suggestions Old, it helped me a lot! ^^