Adjusting fontcolor on a sitemap menu

I've been working for hours on something that should be simple but baffles me.  Perhaps, someone could give me a suggestion.
I'm trying to change the font color of a sitemap to white.  The color is white in the developer screen but black in the browser when I run it.  In fact, it should change to white when I hover over it but it does not.
Here is my code perhaps someone could see what I'm doing wrong.
 
<td class="style3" bgcolor="#E3D8B6" width="200px" style="float: right; color: #FFFFFF;">
     <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1" StaticDisplayLevels="2" ForeColor="White" ItemWrap="True" BorderStyle="Solid" StaticSubMenuIndent="0px" BorderWidth="1px">
       &n ...