Abby, it's going to sound like we are all ganging up on you! You should not use Body tags in these posts. These are set in thier correct place by Mudcat and the usage of Body tags elsewhere is undefined and could cause problems for certain browsers. I am viewing this thread using IE5 and the way seems to handle it is to act on the first occurence of a property being set and to ignore subsequent changes. In this instance, this means that your attempt to change the backround colour has no effect as it was already set to white but your changes to the links do take effect as this is the first time they have been changed.

Jon