Can't Configure System Settings Anymore

[Amadeus W. M.]

>>>Out of curiosity, why would it allow me to configure anything from the
>>>shell, and the gui tools won't save properly? If I were doing a bad thing,
>>>I'd be doing it either way. 
>>>    
>>>
> Not necessarily. From the command line, you're talking directly to the 
> files in question.  From the GUI, you're only talking to the GUI and 
> depending on the GUI to pass along your inputs to _all_ of the relevant 
> files and then depending on the SAVE button on the GUI to save all of 
> those files' changes.  GUIs can be simple or complex to write because of 
> the need for all those callbacks to work correctly.  Almost always, the 
> GUIs do a fine job, because the GUI writers work very hard to get the 
> GUIs right.  However, s*t happens, and sometimes (rarely) a GUI will 
> miss something.

For a minute I believed you (actually, of course, you're right), but the
thing is, now after I've disabled selinux, the guis DO seem to work right.
I'm 90% sure (but not 100%) that the gui wasn't trying to do something
funny behind the scenes.