saved Panelisation setup not reloaded?

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

I've made a very nice/important utility, which uses the panelizing
facility.

After I've 'entered' my new command & its prompt-text it runs nicely.
But when I try to run it again in another VT, after:
   Options -> Save Setup
my new entries are not there. Only the original/default entries are there;
even though my entries ARE in: ~/.mc/ini ?

Oh, I've just discovered that by activating the 'History:^', you can get
  the required command [which was previously exercised/tested]; and
  <enter> transfers it to the special-command-line to use.

Now I've rebooted and my stuff is no longer in ~/.mc/ini, where the
'panelise section' is last; which might indicate that this was the
latest update -- perhaps. The panelised-history is still there.

Why doesn't `Options -> Save Setup` allow me to reuse my effort ?

Thanks,

== Chris Glur.

PS. this also seems not right:
->  mc --help ==
Usage: mc [flags] [this_dir] [other_panel_dir]

  -h, --help             Displays this help message
  -V, --version          Displays the current version
...
->   mc -V ==
GNU Midnight Commander unknown
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, smbfs
With builtin Editor
Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Data types: char 8 int 32 long 32 void * 32 off_t 64 ecs_char 32
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This long-story doesn't "Displays the current version"

This is on Slackware-13.