css a:visited:hover

How come this css entry doesnt actually work? I set my css for links to look like this:

a  {
 color : #FFFF00;
 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 text-decoration: underline;
 font-size: 13px;
 font-weight: bold;
}

a:hover {
 color : #FF0000;
 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 text-decoration : underline;
 font-size: 13px;
 font-weight: bold;
}

a:visited {
 color : #FF0000;
 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 text-decoration : underline;
 font-size: 13px;
 font-weight: bold;
}

a:visited:hover {
 color : #FFFF00;
 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 text-decoration : underline;
 font-size: 13px;
 font-weight: bold;
}

Which is norm link = yellow with red hover
&
visited link = red with yellow hover

But what actually happens is the hover for both normal and visited links just turn yellow and it ignores the a:hover css

Any idea's why?

- Carl S

I have trawled the web, and changed them into every different possible order!! tried loads of ways... and still nothing (though in netscape it works fine...

I actually now dont believe it is possible to have two different hover colours for visited and unvisited links in IE... Most sites just use the same colour, like for example here on this forum...

If anyone can prove me wrong then please do!! This is a dead simple thing which is causing me to tear my hair out!!

- Carl S