Style Customisation - link backgrounds in tcat and thead

[oz_moses]

G'Day all,

I've gone and built a custom style from scratch that matches my team's colours, and it had been working really well for me.

Recently I've noticed that the background colour for links in tcat and thead areas are showing up with a white background - I'd really like to find out why :erm:

The strange part is that vbulletin looks perfect everywhere, it's some of the hacks that I've installed where the deficiency shows up... however I'm thinking it's my style as those same hacks look fine on other sites and on the default style as well.

There's two screenshots to show what I mean, one from the AME hack, the other from photoplog.

Cheers for any advice,
Moses.

[oz_moses]

One observation - it appears that the link in the thead is formatted as alt1 (which is the class of the td that this table sits inside)... surely it should take the thead formatting though?

Here's the rendered code from the photoplog snippet (2nd attachment). It seems that only the link reverts to the alt1 style, the plain text "Since Last Visit" is thead'ed

<td class="alt1" valign="top" width="100%">
<table class="tborder" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" align="center" width="100%" style="display: block; height: 100%;">
<tr height="100%">
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a href="http://www.gothetahs.com/photoplog/index.php?v=5">New comments in Gallery</a> - Since Last Visit
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="left">
<a href="http://www.gothetahs.com/photoplog/index.php?n=421">Phil Waugh vs Bulls</a>
</td>
<td class="alt1" align="left">
<span class="smallfont">
Posted By <a href="member.php?u=2">Moses</a>
Today <span class="time">11:54 AM</span>
</span>
</td>
</tr>

</table>
</td>