your use of the extra <span> tag within your <li> tag is preventing the styles from working properly.
delete all of your <span> tags within the list items and the display inline will be solved.
you than need to change your CSS file to accommodate for the removal of that, and what you can do is just get rid of li a span and just place that in li because the styles you apply to that will be inherited by the text within. and rather then typing out 2 sets of font / padding / etcetc styles if you would prefer to have them the same use the convention
Code:
#tabs li, #tabs li a {
selector: property;
}
and both the regular text, and the anchor tag within the list will display the same way.
on a side note I would suggest that you forget about tabular layout and if possible redesign your site to use CSS Layering exclusively. It will decrease your file page size dramatically, and your processing speeds will increase as well as you have less code to sift through.
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