Have you tried giving the links a direct css color attribute?
also I wouldn't recommend just putting a <div> tag around a link in the middle of the content just to give it css attributes, you can just add an ID to the <a> like;
<a id="other-link" href="address"> Different link color </a>
and then you can assign different color settings for #other-link in your css file.
that way you can always just use <a id="other-link> whenever you want to use that different link color.
Hope I understood the question right ... wasn't 100% sure
let me know how that goes