huh -- I forgot that style = mine also overrode the customized text, but you are right, it totally does. I'll have to configure to view everything in my own style. Thanks.

Title is an iffy one, actually. There has just been a whole long discussion of it on the webaim list, about how it is a lot less of a panacea than people think it is. For example, in most browsers, sighted keyboard-only users have no access to the title attribute whatsoever.