in my site, i am utalizing css that are linked on each page, and i believe this is where my problem lies, but what is happening is that i have links set up to be orange and underlined when the mouse isnt over them (for both visited and pre visited states) and then blue with no underline when mouse over or clicked .... now, the problem is, once you have clicked on a link, the CSS stops working.  On a previous website ive made, i was not quite as familiar with CSS as i am now, so i simply had the css for changing link styles embedded in each of the sites pages ... but it worked no matter if a user had visted the links before

is there a work around for this problem? or should i place that part of the css in each pages body section? ..... or, have i messed some part of my css up?  any help would be appreciated, thanks a lot!

yea, i understand that, its not like my css is coded wrong ... but its just that the code that governs the behavior of the links is in an external css sheet that i link to ... and i guess my question is why does the css stop working when its linked? i guess ill just try puttin the css for the links right in the body of the page and see if that remedies the problem

Here this should work:
A:link{
   color: orange;
   text-decoration: underline;
}
A:visited{
   color: orange;
   text-decoration: underline;
}
A:active{
   color: blue;
   text-decoration: underline;
}
A:hover{
   color: blue;
   text-decoration: none;
}
All i did was rearage them and format them better...

Sometimes, the order in which something is placed does matter. WWW is beginning to have pickier code in that respect but I forget if its XML or what that is getting pickier.