Slitlist gets overwritten when using Fluxbox

I am runnng fluxbox-1.0.0-3 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and the problem I have is this: Each time I edit my ~/.fluxbox/slitlist file to order my dockapps and save my edits, the file gets reverted back to a previous version.

I installed some dockapps that I wanted and added them to my ~/.fluxbox/startup menu and this worked. Then I added the same dockapps to my slitlist file and saved both files. Then I killed restarted X. Yet when fluxbox started the applications I specified were not shown on my slit.

At this point, I looked at my slitlist file and the entries were not what I had entered and saved earlier. I rebooted my machine, logged in as root and re-edited the file to reflect the dockapps I wanted then saved the file. I cat'ed the file to make sure my changes were saved, then rebooted and the same thing happened. I look at my slitlist and the entries were not the ones that I had made and saved, but an earlier version.

Somehow it seems that my slitlist was being overwritten with an earlier copy. How can I get the slitlist to retain the entries that I specify rather than reverting to an earlier version. I did an ls -la in my .fluxbox directory and there were no files other than the expected ones. How can I fix this?

My fluxbox log looks like this:

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Log File: /home/randy/.fluxbox/log
Fluxbox version: 1.0.0
Compiled: Dec 9 2007 21:45:56
Compiler: GCC
Compiler version: 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.2-3ubuntu4)

Defaults:
    menu: /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox.menu-user
   style: /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/BlueNight
    keys: /etc/X11/fluxbox/keys
    init: /etc/X11/fluxbox/init
     nls: /usr/share/fluxbox/nls

Compiled options (- => disabled):
-DEBUG
EWMH
GNOME
IMLIB2
KDE
NLS
REMEMBER
RENDER
SHAPE
SLIT
TOOLBAR
XFT
XINERAMA
XMB
XPM

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apps file failure

The "apps file failure" line appeared after I selected "Clients --> Save Slitlist" after deselcting a dockapp when I right clicked on the slitlist.

Help!