Well here's the way I saw it...

Usually you can change the color of a link with:

a:link{ color: #000;}

When working with the new events template I found that the above code would not work. After a few tests nothing seemed to change the color of the links. I found to change the color I needed to specify the id of the div where the link resides. So my code ended up looking like:

#maincol a{	color: #000;}
#maincol a:visted{ color: #000;}
#maincol a:hover{ color: #999;}
#maincol a:active{ color: #000;}

#footer a{ color: #000;}
#footer a:visited{ color: #000;}
#footer a:hover{ color: #999;}
#footer a:active{ color: #000;}