I'm using an external style sheet to change the color of my links, but every once in a while a link will appear normal until I hover over it and then the css takes effect. My style sheet looks like this:
<style type="text/css">
A:link {background:;color:;text-decoration:none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal; text-transform: none; color: #D6AFCB; background-color: #FDE6F6;}
A:visited {background:; color:; text-decoration:none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #D6AFCB; background-color: #FDE6F6;}
A:hover {background:;color:;text-decoration:line-through; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #D6AFCB; background-color: #FDE6F6;}
A:active {background:;color:;text-decoration:none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #D6AFCB; background-color: #FDE6F6;}
H1 {text-align:left;letter-spacing:none;background:#FDE6F6;color:#D6AFCB;font : normal 14pt/normal "normal/normal Verdana", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
body {background: #FFFFFF; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:D6AFCB; font-size:10pt scrollbar-face-color : #000000;
scrollbar-highlight-color : #FDE6F6;
scrollbar-3dlight-color : #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-shadow-color : #D6AFCB;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color : #E4B9D5;
scrollbar-track-color : #F9DCF1;
scrollbar-arrow-color : #DB8CB0; }

input, textarea
{font-family: font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #D6AFCB; border-style: dashed;border-color: #D6AFCB;
</style>

and the link not working properly is:
<A HREF="mailto:puddinpop_107@hotmail.com">Email me</A>

Any ideas on why only parts of the css won't show?

Take the <style> tags out of your stylesheet.

That fixed it right up, thank you :D