[jQuery] cluetip and clicking on href

[K Bouton]

I have cluetip working - love it. Easy to set up and use.
I have a calendar
you hover over a day and if fetches a remote page with events into the
cluetip. Perfect.
But... I also want the user to be able to click on the day and go to
the events page, but ti doesn't seem to work.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
  $('a.basic').cluetip({
      width:'830px',
      positionBy: 'bottomTop',
      waitImage: false
      });
});
</script>

then in the table the clue tip is created dynamically like

<td width="16"><a class="basic" title="Days available" href="days.php?
year=<?year;?>&month=<?$month;?>" rel="days.php?year=<?year;?>&month=<?
$month;?>"><?$month;?></a></td>
The "rel" brings the pop up just like I want, but the href does
nothing when clicked?

Thanks - new to jquery and this is the first plugin I'm playing with.

K