Dreamweaver template not making changes

Hello everyone,
I have been assigned to a new client and thus "take over" an existing website. This website is setup in Dreamweaver using Templates.
The main Template is using "Param"s to switch the state of the buttons, on or off.
So, I create a new page and link it to this Template. All seems fine.
Next, I would like to change which button is "on".
Based on my research it appears you must do this change through the "Modify>Template Properties" panel. Not by editing the code by hand.
So, I open this up, click on the button code I want to change, hit OK, and I can see that in the head it has changed the Param code.
Now I have the code below.





The defaults are all "true" and the one I just changed is "false".
However, the button state of #4 still has not changed. I have tried various buttons and nothing seems to change.
This perplexes me. Is there something else I need to edit?
Any ideas would be helpful thanks!
Mr Zedd

Thanks "typoman" and "Murray ACE" for your quick responses. I appreciate it.
I was going to post a link to the files in question, but your responses prompted me to do some more testing, specifically to verify that in fact this  code is actually being used.
So, I created a child page and then step-by-step went through and changed the state of each of the 13 buttons. Surprisingly all of the button states changed, except the one I needed, #6. When I changed that state nothing happened at all, but when I changed the #7 button both 6 & 7 buttons changed.
Going back to the Template I found that someone had put in the head code correctly:

but in the body itself there was no #6, only two #7's:

So, once I edited this code everything now works.
Thanks for your input, as it helped me to find the issue.
Gracias!
Mr Zedd

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uses Dreamweaver
> templates.
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