Image placement and <li> issue

To be fair I haven’t checked to see if this is resolved in 3.0 stable version, but it seems that on several occasions with client’s sites (using 2.9.2) they have posted an image which they want ‘left’ justified, with a list by the side (i.e. on the right). The ‘list’ buttons then impinge on the edge of the image — whereas without such a list the text is placed at a correct space from the image.

Is this just a coding glitch? Or any way to avoid it easily.

I’ve generally fixed this via one of three ways: by tweaking the image (adding a 5px border on the right side of image); putting the image in a table (with border instructions); or creating ‘faux-list buttons and removing the < li > instruction — but just wanted to know if there is another or better way to do this.
Cheers.

al