Reinventing the Wheel
I am stupid. It's amazing the things you fixate on when you're out of it.
In my case, I wouldn't rest until I tweaked the colors of the lj to my satisfaction. By randomly guessing letter and number combinations in the rgb values until I came up with some things that were halfway decent. "Guess. Save. Refresh. GAAAAH- go back. Tweak guess. Save. Refresh. Well, damn. I rediscovered pink/puce/lilac/cyan. And this is not a good thing. Go back, repeat." If anyone came by at, oh, midnight EST and the colors were fugly. . . well, now you know.
I came up with more than just the link color, but increasing lack of mental capacity tells me that simpler is better. Sorry hide is now dragging itself to bed. Sorry I didn't do anything more useful, Flidge. -_-;
Something tells me I'm going to have interesting dreams tonight.