JQuery curvycorners and hover

Hi,
I'm using jQuery Eye Candy with the curvycorners plugin to create rounded corners for the tabs for my primary links.
When I use hover or active state to change the colors of the tabs, then the rounded corners do not change color. They stay the same color, just the menu link in the middle of the tab changes on either hover or active state.

Can someone explain to me how to make the entire tab change color based on active or hover state when using jquery in drupal.

Thanks alot.

Alex