text glow problem!

Hey everyone, I'm encountering a strange css problem here:

I use css to create menubuttons on my site.

<td class="menuout">ABOUT US</td>

.menuout {
cursor: hand;
font-family: arial;
font-size: 14 px;
font-weight: bold;
filter:glow(color=white, strenght=1);
background: url('images/navigation/nav1bg.gif');
}

As you can see I use the glow filter because I want a white stroke around my text. I also want a background image after the text but the problem is that my text doesn't glow at all!

The strange is that the text glows when I delete the line with the background-url.

What am I doing wrong? I really need the background-url and the text glow effect (stroke effect?) on my menubutton otherwhise I'll have to make image files of each menu item. Now I can dynamically write out the menu's using array's and so on.

Please help me out!

ps: I use IE6.0, does the glow effect works on other browsers too?

Thank greatfully!

Wouter