Adam Kuehn said it beautifully:

<quote>1. By source, for !important styles: a. user; b. author; c. default.  By source, for all others: a. author; b. user; c. default.
2. By specificity, more specific wins.
3. By markup order, last occurring wins.  Treat all styles arriving via links and @imports as though they occur, in order, at the point the tag occurs in the markup.</quote>

That puts the discussion to rest.

I upgraded this page to XHTML, and redid the <code>perl</code> and HTML for the <a href="cgi/url/urler.cgi"><acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>er</a>.  Plus I'm getting some pants tailored.  Sweet!