This issue sometimes occurs with multi-column div layouts. Unfortunately, there isn't an universal recipe to avoid it.
One thing that should help in these cases is to use a baseline grid, see an example here:
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http://www.alistapart.com/d/settingtypeontheweb/example.html-
http://www.alistapart.com/d/settingtypeontheweb/example_grid.html