UOX3 Ignoring All Changes to Races.dfn?

[alderpax]

I've discovered that when I try to add race attributes or add a new race in races.dfn, UOX3 ignores my changes completely and uses the defaults. I always reload the dfns in the server after changing them; I've even tried shutting down the server, making my changes, then starting it up again - to no avail. UOX3 continutes to act as if I've done nothing to the file. I've even experimented by moving the entire races.dfn file to another directory so UOX3 couldn't read it at all (then reloading dfn's in the server, of course)...yet it still seemed to recognize the 20 default races without a problem. Is this information located somewhere besides races.dfn? If not, why does UOX3 insist on recognizing the 20 default races with default settings, even if the races.dfn file is changed or removed? I feel I must be missing something that's fairly obvious, as nobody else seems to be having this frustrating problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.