Cfm template updating cfc variable scope

Question

Don't know if anybody's run into this before, but I ran into a strange issue with the variable scope in a cfc.  Basically, I have some application settings stored in a database table, and then I have a cfc saved to application scope in which I store the contents of the table in a variable scope query.  Within the cfc, I have a getter function that preforms a query of queries to pull the data I need.  I then have an admin screen within the application to update the settings.
This is (very generally) what my cfc looks like:
<cfcomponent  name="settings.cfc">
     <cffunction name="init" returntype="settings">  
          <cfset setAppSettings() />  
          <cfreturn this />  
     </cffunction>  
     <cffunction name="setAppSettings">  
          <cfquery name="variables.qrySettings" datasource="#application.dsn#">  
               SELECT *
               FROM SETTINGS
          </cfquery>  
     </cffunction>  
     <cffunction name="getAppSettings" returntype="query">  
          <cfargument name="id" />
          <cfset var local = structNew() />  
          <cfquery name="local.qryResult" dbtype="query">  
               SELECT *
               FROM variables.qrySettings
               WHERE ID = <cfqueryparam value="#arguments.id#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_numeric" />  
          </cfquery>  
          <cfreturn local.qryResult />  
     </cffunction>  
</cfcomponent>
In onApplicationStart in Application.cfc, I have this line:
<cfset  
application.objSettings = createObject("component","settings").init() />

Answer 1

Sorry, accidentally posted before I was done...
Basically, the problem is that I have an admin screen that updates the settings.  I call the getter function in a cfm template, and I save the result to a variable called variables.qrySettings (same name as in the cfc) like this - <cfset variables.qrySettings = application.objSettings.getAppSettings(url.id) />.  For some reason, this seems to overwrite variables.qrySettings in the cfc.  Any ideas????