Hello,
I'm having trouble getting a line of text that has an image betweeen the first and second word to line up vertically within one row of a table. This is a single row within the main container; I am using the fluid hybrid method from Nicole Merlin.

I tried vertical align middle, valign and anything else I could think of. But no luck.
It seems to be working every but Outlook 2007+. Here's my code.

<tr>
    <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#e2f4ff" style="padding:0">
      <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" style="border-spacing:0;font-family:sans-serif;color:#333333;">
        <tr>
          <td valign="middle" lang="title" style="vertical-align: middle !important;padding:0;text-align:left;padding-bottom: 5px !important;color: #17a0ce;font-weight: bold; Margin:0;font-size:26px; text-align: center;">
            <span>THE</span>
            <img width="15%" style="vertical-align: middle !important;" src="http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/eucAAOSwFAZTs0iK/s-l96.jpg" alt="ABC's" /><span>&nbsp;OF SAFE CARE FOR DOGS</span>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </td>
  </tr>