[KTBleeding]

8.1 of.. what? I have no idea what you're talking about, but that css isn't working cause there's several things done wrong. Here:

a:hover, a:active { background: url (images/misc/linkback.gif) repeat-x; color: #ccc; }

a:hover, a:active, not a: hover, a: Active

{}, not ()

color: #ccc, not color: # #CCCCCC;

You should specify a background color when short handing the css like that too, but that's getting pretty picky.

That's quite a few mistakes for one small chunk of code, I recommend reading into css more, doing more tutorials, etc.