Hyperlinks not working in IE 5 on Mac

Not sure why but I have several pages where the hyperlinks just act like
plain text.  However on the same page I create 
a a link around an image and it works.  The hyperlinks links work in
Safari, ireFOx and IE on Windows.  Here's an example:

<a
style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:13pt;color:#8B0000;text-decoration:none;"

href="groupInfo.aspx?gid=10002">Wild Colonials</a>



I've tried removing the style attribute completely but it still doesn't
work.  Here's one with the image in it that does 
work:


<a href="groupInfo.aspx?gid=10002"><img border="0" alt="" 
src="http://media.indieclectic.com/coverArt/10002/gimaget.jpg&#xD;&#xA;
  
                                "></img></a>


Not sure why the escaped crriage return and line feed are in there but it
works.  The link around the image is something 
I added after the other link was found to not be working.


What gives?


--Buddy