suckerfish hover or submit on IE

[scottholmes]

It seems I have a choice, my menu item can follow suckerfish and change background color on hover or the document.submit() function can work. Not both. Any ideas about this would be appreciated. I have this bit of code for a menu option: <li><a href="#" onClick="document.getElementById('cf').submit()">Commit</a></li> This allows the Commit to behave as (this bit of css):

#topMenu ul li:hover a, #topMenu ul li.sfhover a {
        padding-bottom: 1px;
        background-color: #FF7F00;
        color: #fff;
}

or <li><a onClick="document.getElementById('cf').submit()">Commit</a></li> and the submit() works but the css is ignored. Both ways work fine on firefox and othe gnome browsers. The problem is strictly an IE thing.