Changes to timesheet using PSI against Project 2013 not persisting...

Since we migrated from Project Server 2007 to 2013 we have been updating our custom code which mainly involves processing the timesheets. As has been stated in many places, the only way we could find to lock timesheets and prevent modification, recall, deletion,
etc after the timesheet has been approved is to set the TS_IS_PROCESSED value in the timesheet's header table to true as the code below does.
DataRow headerRow = headersTable.Rows[0];
headerRow[headersTable.TS_IS_PROCESSEDColumn] =
true;
GuidjobUid =
Guid.NewGuid();
GuidtimesheetUid = (Guid)headerRow[headersTable.TS_UIDColumn];
this.timesheetClient.QueueUpdateTimesheet(jobUid,
timesheetUid, timesheetData)
I wrote out the contents of the header table on one timesheet I was processing before and after executing the code above. Before the update, TS_IS_PROCESSED value is false, and after it's true. Great! But then if I process that same timesheet again,
I notice that the before and after values are false and true respectively again. Where/When is that TS_IS_PROCESSED value being reset back to false? We don't have any other code that is touching this stuff or even making calls to update the timesheets. All
other calls are reading data back...
I don't understand why I can't get the true value to persist?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Djwawa--
Please note that you are all volunteers that take on our
spare time to
kindly help the Project community. Thus there are
no ridiculous conclusion, we are just trying to understand concerns and propose various tracks to help Project users to solve issues.
Hope you'll find a solution for your issue.
Hope this helps,
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