picky styles

[TruthInSatire]

I have the following classes and links. I'm using this in two pages. One page works like I would expect the other does not.

What I want it to do is apply the hover effect if the mouse hovers over any part of that row (display: block

on one page it does that. on the other page it only applies the effect if you hover over the text

a.menu:Link, a.menu:visited, a.menu:active {
			font-family: verdana;
			font-size: 10pt;
			color:#000;
			text-decoration: none;
			background-color:#D9CCB3;
			display: block;
			border: 1px solid #D9CCB3;
			}
a.menu:hover {
			font-family: verdana;
			font-size: 10pt;
			color: #0059a5;
			border: 1px solid #ccc;
			border-right: 1px solid #D9CCB3;
			border-left: 1px solid #D9CCB3;
			border-top: 1px solid #9CA5C9;
			border-bottom: 1px solid #9CA5C9;
			text-decoration: none;
			background-color:#DFD9D0;
			display: block;
			}

Links that do not act as I wish

	     <td  bgcolor="#BCD5DE">
		<a href="asdf.html" class="menu">Link</a>
		<a href="asdf" class="menu">Link</a>	
		<a href="adsf" class="menu">Link1234568789</a>	
		<a href="adsf" class="menu">Link</a>
		</td>

Links that do

  <td valign="top" nowrap>

<br>
	<span class="menuHead">Navigation&nbsp;</span>
	<a href="../../default.cfm?count=no" target="_blank" class="menu">&nbsp;Home page&nbsp;</a>
	<a href="default.cfm" class="menu">&nbsp;Admin&nbsp;</a>
	<a href="superStats.cfm" target="_blank" class="menu">&nbsp;Listener stats&nbsp;</a><br>
	
				
          </td>

what am i missing? why does one work and the other does not?

both tested in IE 6.

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[TruthInSatire]

I got it to work. It wanted to be inside a single sell table.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)