Thanks for the reply. I already have separate class for the different links.

There is away round, setting the a attribute in a separate class for each item, but as I have dozens of classes, I was hoping there might be a cleaner way of doing it. After all, it works fine on firefox. Looks like I'll just have to have loads of code that shouldn't be needed.

By that I mean

.panel001{
background-image:url(../images/panels/001.gif);
height: 103px;
width: 361px;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
.panel001 a{
color:#FFFFFF;
}

(I have 12 of these so far, and probably more so it seems like a lot of extra code)