THere's nothing wrong with your LINK element. The rest of your HTML is a problem however.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<title>Example</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="p4mestylesheet.css">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Get the HTML right; use The Validator. Make certain that the page and the style sheet are in the same directory. And make sure that you have no STYLE tags in the style sheet.
If all the above fail then post your URL.
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