Why does panel spontaneously delete things?

[Grant Edwards]

I'm using the new mailwatch plugin, and it occasionally dies
for reasons I can't track down.  It happens infrequently enough
that I don't really care except for one problem: when it does
die, it get's permanently deleted from the panel.  Then I have
to manually add it back in and reconfigure it.  After going
through that exercise a couple times, I made backup copies of
all my mailwatch-NNNNNNNNN.rc files so know what I have to do
is add it back, stop the panel, copy the config file, restart
the panel.

Two questions:

 1) What's the reasoning behind the decision to permanently
    delete a mailwatcher it when it dies?  That makes no sense
    to me.  The two options that do make sense: a) restart it,
    b) delete it temporarily (until the next time the panel
    restarts).

 2) Why do the config files get overwritten when the panel
    exits even when there have been no changes?  That makes
    editing the configuration files a lot more painful since
    you have to do it while the panel isn't running.

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