Replacing all of my buttons with text/css - question regarding multiquote

[grecostimpy]

I also posted this on VB.com, but figured I might have better luck here with edited code.

I am replacing all of my postbit buttons with custom made css buttons that I developed. I have every single one of them working correctly except for multiquote.

The multiquote functionality just does not want to work correctly on my dev server.

All other buttons I added work correctly, but it seems this if/else statement is driving my system (and me) batty. The if/else statement basically just says "If post selected for multiquote, then use one image, if it not, use a different image"

Well, originally I had two different css states for the buttons depending on the multiquote function. (two different css classes) but I could not get the if/else statement to work with that. Then I decided to simplify and just do what Vbulletin natively does and do an image switch....I can't seem to get that to work either.

The issue is that half the posts show the state as being on (when they were never clicked) and the other half show it as off (completely random order). Clicking an on or off multiquote button does not change the image.

Any ideas? I'm sure plenty of people have done stuff like this (using html/css in place of buttons...so somebody must have a solution for my multiquote problem!

Here's the original vbulletin multiquote html:

<if condition="$show['multiquote_post']">
<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/multiquote_<if condition="$show['multiquote_selected']">on<else />off</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[multi_quote_this_message]" border="0" id="mq_$post[postid]" /></a>
</if>

Here's my multiquote html (for my new button):

<if condition="$show['multiquote_post']">
<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" onclick="return false" class="buttons" style="margin-bottom:10px; width:60px"> <img src="images/pngbuttons/<if condition="$show['multiquote_selected']">quote<else />quote2</if>.png" alt="$vbphrase[multi_quote_this_message]" border="0" id="mq_$post[postid]" /></a>        
</if>

Here's the css buttons in action: