There is no position:center.
The blocks will fill the width of the column they are in. what you can do is to look at the css for the block's design box it is using and see if the issue is there. Each design box will have css applied to it. The default design box is design box 1. You would look at the width in the CSS, the margins. If width is set to 100%, it will fill the width of the container it is placed in. However, you also have settings for margins; if you have margin-left set to 10 px and margin-right set to 20 px then the block will not be centred in the container.
What you can do is to turn off CSS caching and use Firebug or similar to look at the css and even play around with it in real time without affecting the site. You can see the results of the changes you make in real time without it breaking the site for your members.