Why does the anaconda-ks.cfg file *not* reflect the packages I chose during my manual install?

[Gregory Gerard <ggerard ggerard com>]

Hello,

Longtime listener, first time caller...

Just installed CentOS 5 and along the way I selected all optional 
packages for things.

1. It's incredibly annoying I cannot right-click on a top-level category 
and say "Install all optional packages" but must through each 
sub-category and tediously do it.
2. I was hoping the ks file generated would have a good flight recording 
I could then replay but it only reflects the default packages, not the 
"all optional packages" I'd selected during the manual install.
3. While CentOS 5 configurator doesn't crash like the FC6 did (wow, that 
sucked a lot of time), it doesn't allow me to select optional packages 
at all making it pretty much a starting point for a boilerplate KS file 
that I must then extensively hand edit.
4. In my naive attempt at getting this behavior to work, I did a "rpm 
-qa >> mymachine.cfg" in order to have anaconda install the RPMs that 
were installed when I did the original manual install (sorry, English 
grammar is elusive right now). This just resulted in the install just 
sitting there pegging the CPU with "Completed Completed" being the last 
message on the console.

Ideas?

thanks,
greg