Logic Express 9 doesn't remember my controller assignments

Hi,
I'm using M-Audio Axiom 25 and UC-33e with Logic Express 9. I know how to use the midi learn function, and I'm able to get everything working until I quit logic and open it up again. After that, the previously working assignments won't work, even though logic shows them in the controller assignments window and shows that some midi data is coming in. I've been searching the forum and m-audio forum as well, and they said, that the problem must be with logic. Apparently I'm not the only one with the problem.
However I managed to get the key commands work (with Axiom 25, not UC-33e) by exporting them, but I'd also like to be able to use the knobs etc.

I was never ever able to get Logic 8 to remember my controller assignments for very long or at all. Nor was I was ever able to find a solution to the problem despite all my efforts to try.
My solution was third party. I purchased a Novation Remote SL which uses Automap. As aggravating as it was to have to do this, it solved my problems permanently. Automap is Novation's software that maps itself to Logic as well as to many if not most audio units. It also perfectly controls transport functions without a hitch.
I felt a bit non plused that such a simple feature in Logic was never very reliable. I haven't tried it since upgrading to Logic 9 since I'm still happily using the Remote with Automap. Hopefully someone can provide better help other than simple explaining how to set the learn function up in Logic. The manual explains that just fine. A better explanation as to how to keep it working or get around the bugginess of it would be more useful - and that I was never able to find.

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