Odd spacing in creating table tags

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Yeah, so I was making a table in my sig, and in Preview Sig it keeps putting in a nasty gap between some text and the start of the table. Like, well, check it out.

edit: Line of code of interest.
The Gang are:
< table >< tr >< td >< b >The Member< /b >< td >< b >Running for Ciddies< /b >< /tr >

edit again: I changed it so the whole sig is a text table, i.e.
< table >< tr >< td >The Gang are:< /tr >
< tr >< td >< b >The Member< /b >< td >< b >Running for Ciddies< /b >< /tr >

Still spaced out, as you can see. Why?

edit x3: I took it out of my sig to see if it works in a general post.
<table><tr><td>The Gang are:</tr>
<tr><td><b>The Member</b><td><b>Running for Ciddies</b></tr>
<tr><td>The Leader<td>Too Cool for the Ciddies</tr>
<tr><td>The Weird One<td>Too Weird for the Ciddies</tr>
<tr><td>The Chick<td>Best Female</tr>
<tr><td>The Token Minority<td>Best Spammer</tr>
<tr><td>The Nerd<td>MLT Get Hit By a Bus</tr>
<tr><td>The Hippie<td>MLT Be Driving The Bus</tr>
<tr><td>The Prankster<td>MLT Kill Someone Who Stole His Ciddie</tr>
<tr><td>The Gang discreetly supports:</tr>
<tr><td>Agent Proto<td>MLT Be a Modwhore</tr>
<tr><td>Meat Puppet<td>Funniest Member</tr>
</table>
Didn't work. ;_;