CSS Style sheet not working in DW4

I am new to Dreamweaver CS4 and have been following the tutorials for Beginners on Adobe TV.
I have used a Standard Layout, 2 columns, Header, Footer, Sidebar.
I have created and saved the CSS Style Sheet as suggested in a folder with the CSS panel.
I have made changes to the web page with CSS and can see the changes in Design View on my screen.
However, when I view my trial site in a browser, none of the Style changes are visible. Looking at the XHTML code,
the path to the CSS Style Sheet appears to be correct. What am I doing wrong?

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I am fairly new to dreamweaver and css. I have created an
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http://alliterationstudio.com/silverspark/index.htm
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On 07 Apr 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver, stacistubbs wrote:
> Here's the link to my page. It's a school project. I
only have the
> first page created for it so even tho there are
rollovers, there are
> no pages linked them, so just ignore that.
>
>
http://alliterationstudio.com/silverspark/index.htm
http://alliterationstudio.com/silverspark/silversparkstyle.css
returns a
403 (Forbidden) error. An imaginary stylesheet whose name I
entered
returned a 404 (File not found). In the other project which
had an
external stylesheet, there was no problem. So - it sounds
like a
permission issue on silversparkstyle.css. I'm not sure if
MX04 has a
file permissions 'thing' built in; if not, you'll either have
to get an
FTP client which does file permissions (FileZilla for Windows
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
does), or use a terminal app (SSH, like
putty, in preference to Telnet) to log in and change the
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> This is not a display issue with the toolbar. There is
clearly a
> stylesheet
> attached in the header; however, in Dreamweaver when I
look in the
> "properties"
> panel while in CODE VIEW, it says there are no styles
and no attached
> style
> sheet. When I try to attach my style sheet, it says, "An
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