To add a space, there's a few easy options. The best/easiest is likely to simply add the following to your stylesheet:
.jfbclike {
margin-bottom:10px;
}
Another alternative is, in the same file you modified before, in the same section, you'll see a line of code that starts with $likeText = "{JFBCLike ... and goes on for a few lines. At the end of this, simply add a line break, so the line should end like: '}<br/>';
As for the comments themselves, they are stored on Facebook's servers. Each comment is associated with a specific URL on your page. When using the JFBCComments module, we will use whatever the current URL is (unless a specific one is specified in the parameters). With the content plugin though, we know we're in an article, so we try to determine the canonical URL for that article (which will work from blog views, section views, and the article itself). Generally, these the module and content plugin should create the same URL, but there are cases (depending on the configuration of your site), where they're different.
If you really need to save a few comments, you may have to enable the 'old' module on just those pages and tell the content plugin to exclude those articles. Then, going forward, use the content plugin on all new articles. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn't have a way to migrate comments from one URL to another.
Good luck,
Alex