It was causing problems. Adding those lines adds those default styles on every element and since those styles are declared as important, they override some of the styles provided naturally by the balanced stylesheet, which we want. 

I didn't want to have to redeclare the styles on every element and mark them as important so I just commented out those lines.

What would you recommend doing instead?

This is how it looks with those styles:
![screenshot 2013-09-30 13 57 21](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/602762/1240862/0d71b4dc-2a13-11e3-8d37-28d124b36c67.png)


This is how it looks without those styles:
![screenshot balanced-dashboard](https://www.dropbox.com/s/zbm47d2ntjds7z4/Screenshot%202013-09-30%2014.00.00.png)