nothing works:

<style type="text/css">
a:link{ text-decoration:none; color: #CCCCCC; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial; }
a:hover{ filter: dropshadow(Color=#CCCCCC, OffX=1, OffY=4, positive=1); text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial; }
body
{
background: #fafafa;
font-family: verdana,arial;
color: #000000;
font-weight: lighter;
font-size: x-small;
letter-spacing: -1px;
scrollbar-face-color : #FAFAFA;
scrollbar-highlight-color : #FAFAFA;
scrollbar-3dlight-color : #FAFAFA;
scrollbar-shadow-color : #FAFAFA;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color : #FAFAFA;
scrollbar-track-color : #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-arrow-color : #FFFFFF;
}
</style>

It looks all right to me, remember that if you're using external style sheets you take out the style tags... other than that I don't know what's wrong :P

yep, that's the problem =D thanks!