Hey jQuery Forum,

As implied, I'm new to jQuery - be gentle!

My question has to do with the use of Tabs.  Alongside using jQueryColor, I would like to animate the text color properties of any tab, besides the currently selected tab.  That said (and keep in mind, I'm new to this), this is my markup, which is clearly _not_ working.

$('ul.mainNavList li a').not('ul.mainNavList li.ui-tabs-selected a').hover(
      function($e){
          $(this).animate({
            color:'#000000'
            }, 150
          );
      },
      function($e){
          $(this).animate({
            color:'#545454'
            }, 150
          ); 
      }
    );

If you have any suggestions as to how I might go about this, it'd be much appreciated.  Also, any general advice you may have (based upon this snippet and my quite "green" understanding of jQuery) would be great.

Thanks!

-Brendan