Bullets show up blue

Hi there

I have a funny little problem. I’m loading text with bullets and links from an external text file into an html textfield. For some reason the list items with links in them, make the bullets blue. The list items without links in them have black bullets. I want them all to show up black.

here is an example of the html text that’s being loaded:
<ul>
<li><a href=“asfunction:_root.activate,credit”><font color="#0000FF"><u>Credit</u></font></a> <font color="#000000">is negotiated when someone receives something like money, products or services without having to pay out cash right away</font>
</li>
<li><font color="#000000">The credit company requires you to pay additional money when you don’t pay them back right away</font>
</li>
</ul>

I’ve checked all my formatting and I can’t find any errors or unclosed tags that might be causing it. As you can see I’ve tried putting black font tags around the non-linking text but it doesn’t seem to have an effect.

Any thoughts?