trouble shrinking gridview's pagerstyle-height beyond a certain point

I have tried many approaches to shortening the height of the pager row in my gridview, but with no luck.  I've tried using the Height property and the CssClass property, with px units, and em units, and I've tried the property PagerStyle-Height="xxx" and the element <PagerStyle Height="xxx" /> (and the same for the CssClass property).  In each case I am able to make the row taller, but not able to make it any shorter than the default height, which is taller than all the other rows in the grid.  Below is the generated html.

Any help in shrinking this row, much appreciated-

ASP.NET 2.0

<tr style="height:3px;">
	<td colspan="6"><table border="0">
		<tr>
		<td><span>1</span></td><td><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('gvCustomers','Page$2')">2</a></td>
		</tr>
	</table></td>
</tr>

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