ScrollView cuts off the top and leaves space at the bottom

This is being caused because of the layout_gravity in your LinearLayout. Since your LinearLayout is inside a ScrollView you are probably just trying to center horizontally (centering vertically inside a ScrollView doesn’t make since). Specifying your LinearLayout to center horizontally like this should do the trick:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:padding="10dip" >