moepower,
try this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> New Document </TITLE>
<style>
a:link {color:#000000}
a:active {color:#000000}
a:hover {color:#000000}
a:visited {color:#000000}
</style>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<a href="#">hello there</a> what are you doing?
</BODY>
</HTML>
That should make you happy. It puts the link as black, just like the text that follows it.
Mike