ColumnLeft background-color not working

[RayDube]

Hello all,

I'm trying to set the background-color for my left nav pane to #232327, but for some reason it's just not taking.

in the css file I have

/*sideboxes*/
.columnLeft {
          background-color: #232327;
          }

And yet, the color remains white...

I'm sure one of you guru's can figure this one out in your sleep, but for the life of me, I cannot

Is it possible that the source-code on the page is over-riding the css in the stylesheet?

the source for the page shows

<td id="navColumnOne" class="columnLeft" style="width: 150px">

Thanks,

Ray