The html that flattop copied has meta and body tags. This:
BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#000000" VLINK="#000000"
is what is making the links black.

Matt, is your browser overriding other people's formatting again? That would account for why you see blue.

So now, all we need is for a joeclone to come and remove those tags. Then we can get back to the subject...