How do I get rid of this menu bar space?

[Quillz]

Hi,

I'm using GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 11.10, and there is a empty space on my top menu bar that I can't seem to get rid of:

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/2488/screenshotat20120126214.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/837/screenshotat20120126214.png/)

I've tried right clicking, and nothing happens. I can't figure how to move the menu bar icons around so that annoying space isn't there. (Obviously, it's between the volume icon and the Bluetooth icon.)

[Quillz]

I'd like to add that it only seems to occur on my virtual machine. I just got 11.10 installed natively onto my ThinkPad, and the menu bar here seems fine.