CSS - centering block types

I am not a web developer so hopefully i can explain this the right way. Let’s say i have a div that will have several links centered within it. The links visually look like “buttons” that are CSS boxes with a small background image 120x50 px. No matter where i enter align=“centered” whether in the div, the body, etc, the blocks always always always move to the far left! Here is the code:

HTML:


<div id="centercontent" align="center">
    <div id="maincontentcentered" align="center"><a href="#">link4</a> <a href="#">link5</a> <a href="#">link6link</a> <a href="#">link</a> <a href="#">link</a> <a href="#">link</a> <a href="#">link</a> <a href="#">link</a></div>
  </div>


CSS:


#centercontent  {
	text-align: center;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-left: auto;
}
#maincontentcentered  {
	width: 500px;
	float: none;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 18px;
}
#maincontentcentered a {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-decoration: none;
	background-image: url(../images/buttonbg2.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: left top;
	float: left;
	height: 50px;
	width: 120px;
	display: block;
	line-height: 15px;
	margin: 2px;
	text-align: center;
	color: #002D62;
}
#maincontentcentered a:hover {
	background-image: url(../images/MainFrameButtons/m2.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: left bottom;
	text-decoration: underline;
}


In order for the margin-left: auto and margin-right: auto to work, the div needs to have a specified width. So it looks like you can either set #centercontent to a width of 500px or move the margin-left and margin-right stuff into #maincontentcentered.