PDF Printing and CSS Media Style Sheets in OS X -- CSS @page ignored

I'd like to author an XHTML document and specify precisely how it should be printed to pdf (margins/headers/footers/page breaks/etc.) using the CSS Media Style Sheet capability, i.e, CSS's @page rule.
Apparently, Microsoft IE7 supports these page rules (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/06/10/428149.aspx), but these do not yet appear to be supported in OS X's "Print to PDF" function (http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PrintStylesheets).
Is this true? Does anyone know how to access these CSS printing capabilities on a Mac?
Furthermore, does anyone know how to get "Print to PDF" to maintain HTML hyperlinks in the PDF file?
E.g., using OS X+Firefox, the following @page rule is ignored by the "Print to PDF" function on my Mac.
<style type="text/css">

</style>
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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