You can’t control the space between a bullet point on a list-item, and the text that follows it. That’s a real pain – I was trying to put bullets into a narrow column. Controlling the indent was, well, tricky too.
Why is CSS unable to style obvious things like this? I mean, radio buttons? Checkboxes? Grrr… 
Comments from my old blog:
Workaround = ditch the standard bullet, create an image, place it left top, use some left padding.
Hey Rew,
Yeah, considered that, but it was too complicated – I was driving this through Microsoft Content Management Server – the users have access to ‘unordered lists’, but asking them to just use images would have been a bit too much.
Plus, it would make site-wide changes impossible.