[img=http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh150/Sinine1100/TabEffect.png]I, however, contest this notion. For you see, I managed to successfully convince the forum to allow text next to an image, and can easily demonstrate it...
[img=http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh150/Sinine1100/TabEffect.png]However, the forum sees the image as being on a single line only, and as such, only one line of text can be next to the image - all other lines of text will be pushed after the image (which is kind of what I want to achieve here - a single longer space on one line that will push all text following it onwards by its width). Just in case someone has their window large enough or the text small enough for it to come across as one line rather than several, here is some more text to hopefully make it into several lines. 
[img=http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh150/Sinine1100/TabEffect.png]My transparent box is two pixels tall and thirty pixels wide, for the record.