attempt to manually remove address from AWL failing

[JT DeLys]

I'm trying to /remove/ an address from my current AWL.

Here's the active whitelist,

% cd /usr/local/etc/spamassassin/.spamassassin/

% ls -al auto-whitelist
  -rw-rw---- 1 saadmin saadmin 10248192 Jun 26 16:04 auto-whitelist

It contains this address,

% check_whitelist auto-whitelist | grep carparts | grep info
  -1.5      (-16.6/11)  --  [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ip=11.222

I remove it, apparently successfully,

% spamassassin --nocreate-prefs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  SpamAssassin auto-whitelist: removing address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

But the address still appears to be in the database,

% check_whitelist auto-whitelist | grep carparts | grep info
  -1.5      (-16.6/11)  --  [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ip=11.222

Any hints as to what I'm doing incorrectly?

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Thanks,

   JTDeLys