Hello i have enclosed an image of what i would like to do, this probably straight forward but i am having all kinds of problems trying to get this done.

basically i just want to make my members box nice and tidy like yours and not all spaced out.

Hi james.

Did you modifed any css files of this module? Because this's how it should look like after installing socialize template.

nope not touched the css for members module. is there some override code you can give me?

i have updates joomla, updated jomsocial and this did not work. i even created a fresh site to see if it worked and it did not.

Hi James.

This's happening because in module configuration you had " sbox2" in Module Class Suffix, I changed it to default setting which is " app-box" and now it looks fine.