UI Tabs Effects Strange Problem

UI Tabs Effects Strange Problem


So this one has me scratching my head. I have a 2-part navigation on
my site that uses the UI tabs to flip between set menu items and ones
the user has defined. I thought I'd add a little flare and put a fade
on the transition. Works beautifully, until I realized that when I'd
flip to the user-defined items, all the text and links would be this
weird faded color, but as soon as I rolled over the links, they'd
return to their normal color. Same thing was happening with text.
Removing the effect from the tabs fixed the issue. So I'm wondering
what would be causing this and if there's a way to fix it. Thanks!