Website not displaying CSS link colors the intended way

simple quick problem!

[leafgreen]

Hi please help on this very simple (but not easy for me) problem. TIA!

On most of the pages on <snip> the a href links sometimes show up in IE 6.02 for Windows as #0000FF and sometimes #9588D5. Also (less important) none of the a:hovers show up as red.

But viewing in older IE 5.1.5 for Mac the the links are all consistently #0000FF and a:hovers do show up as red.

I use Dreamweaver MX 2004 7.0.1. Following is my external style sheet:
/* CSS Document */
td{
font-size:11px;
font-family:verdana;
color: #000066;
}
a{
text-decoration:none;
font-size:11px;
color:#0000FF;
font-family:verdana;
}
a:hover{
color:red;
}
a:visited{
font-size:11px;
color:#B00112;
}
a.red {
font-size:11px;
color:#A60000;
font-family:verdana;
text-decoration:none;
font:900
}
a.red:visited {
color:#A60000;
}
.padding{
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
}
a.white{color:#ffffff;
font-size:11px;
text-decoration:none}
a.white:visited{color:#ffffff}
.style3 {
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
}
.style7 {color: #B00112}
.style8 {
font-size: 9px;
color: #000066;
}
.style11 {color: #000066}
.style13 {
font-size: 9px;
color: #0000FF;
}
.style15 {font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; color: #000066; }
.style21 {font-size: 9px}
.style22 {color: #0000FF}

[edited by: SuzyUK at 11:42 am (utc) on Mar. 23, 2006]
[edit reason] removed site specifics per TOS #13 [/edit]

[Robin_reala]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

First off, as per the forum charter you're not allowed direct links to your site. However, a cursory glance as your CSS showed that you've got the :hover and :visited pseudoclasses in the wrong order. A good mnemonic for the ordering is Love/Hate - :link, :visited, :hover, :active. See if that helps?