Hmm... That's exactly what I suspected myself.
The thing is - given our latest message exchange - I decided to make... a leap of faith and update my old, super-tweaked Ace code based, with the freshest Ace build possible (and then re-attach my modifications - none of which is Marker-related).
Now, here's the weirdest thing: I just copy-pasted your code in Kitchen Sink and it worked. And it also work with my local testing page. Could it have been that I was not testing it with an existing CSS class? That's really weird! I must have tried every possible variation of those 1-2 commands...