When I try to apple a style from the template.css file to an element, such as an anchor tag, it gets rendered with the style from the skin.css file instead. 

Has anybody run into this?  How can I apply styles without explicitly stating them as style="" in the element tags?  I want to be able to use classes, but not alter the classes in the skin.css file, since those must remain the same for other site areas.

Thanks!