grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

On a newly installed Debian Sid on an Inspiron 5160, I notice that grub 
always boots from the first entry even though I have "default saved" in 
the menu.lst file and all the stanzas have the savedefault keywork in 
them. Am I missing something here? If this is supposed to work, I can 
post the complete menu.lst file to ask for other's advice on what could 
be wrong in the file. The file has been automatically generated and I 
have changed only the "timeout" and "default"  option.

thanks,
->HS
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