Thank you and I apologize that you put all of those steps in for me but I have the set up of the label legends down it's your last statement:
"...is there a way to change the relationship of the text and the container?" that I am wondering about.
The only solution I've found to changing the relationship of the container and the text is by offsetting the container from 0,0 but that makes the container less useful for a wide range of label legends.