Can't get sIFR to color a link within a paragraph

I'm using sIFR 3 and it's been working great for the most part. I've run into a problem though where I have a paragraph of text that sIFR replaces. In this paragraph is a hyperlink. This hyperlink always seem to default to the standard blue link color (browser default I'm guessing) when it's replaced by sIFR.

My markup is:

<p class="sub">
some text
<a href="page.html" class="sublink">mylink</a>
more text
</p>

Code (markup):

and my sIFR config code is:

sIFR.replace(abadi, {
    selector: 'p.sub',
    css: '.sIFR-root { color:#6a6a6a; letter-spacing:-1}',
    wmode: 'transparent'
});

sIFR.replace(abadi, {
    selector: 'a.sublink',
    css: '.sIFR-root { color:#4e8fd1; letter-spacing:-1}',
    wmode: 'transparent'
});

Code (markup):

I've read the documentation, tried everything I can think of, and created a minimal test case all with no luck.

If anyone can point out what I'm doing wrong - assuming this is possible in sIFR I would really appreciate it.