Strange grub behavior w/new 2.6.22.1-41 kernel

[Nathan Grennan]

Casey Stamper wrote:
> I got home today and updated my laptop w/the latest kernel and other
> updates. When I rebooted, grub automtically went back to the previous
> kernel. I had to manually choose the new one. It's easy enough to fix in
> menu.lst but I thought the default behaviour was to make the latest kernel
> the default.
>   
  I have seen the same issue, but have no idea what is causing it. 
grub.conf looks fine, nothing special.