Sorry it took me a while (caught the flu), it looks like you have everything right. Seeing how you have things coded, you have the "Hit!" sprite as its own font right? Show me how you have that font defined, looks something like this:
[Def]
Size = 72,32
Spacing = 1,0
Colors = 256
Offset = 0,0
Type = Fixed
[Map]
H 0 0
And make mess around with the x value, sometimes that can be the problem....for some weird reason.