Blank entries in Safari plist files

I came across a weird problem today when I was using the Property List Editor to look at some Safari plist files - in ~/Library/Safari/LastSession.plist
The problem is that the value for some web sites is shown as blank, but yet there is a valid Safari window with a valid URL for where this entry should be. It does not happen very often but seems to be repeatable for certain websites. For example one of the problem URL's is
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=9191
and then look at the LastSession.plist file with the Property List Editor, the entry for this tab is blank, but yet gets restored OK the next time I start Safari.
So the question is how in the world do I see a blank value for the URL string but Safari gets the right info and opens the URL OK the next time it starts up?? This happens to more than this single web site (there are probably 4 or 5 out of 30 that seem to have this problem). The problem does not happen on another different Mac (both on Leopard) for this same web site, so it isn't consistent and in fact if I bring up the same web site in another window it might look OK in Property List Editor - very random. I've looked at the plist file with two different plist editors and both show the same blank value for where the URL should be.
Any ideas as to what is going on?
Thanks...
-Bob

The names are different in the two .plist files:
* Icon already includes gloss effect [YES | NO]
* Required device capabilities [Array of capabilities]
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* UIPrerendededIcon [YES | NO]
* UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities [Array of capabilities]
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