FTP Adapter Properties change - question

Friends,
I am new to SOA 11G suite. We ahve a FTP connection configured on the Weblogic using FTP adapter. I want to change the password of the FTP configuration which I do by using following steps but the password does reflect the change after I relogon to Console or actually run the application I deployed which uses the FTP Connection. I would like to know if I am missing any steps :-
1. Selected my specific connnection in the connection factory
2. Changed the password through properties tab
3. Checking the Ftpadapter (under Deployment) and clicking the Update button.
4. Tried both option - Update application and Redeploy option.
5. It gives me messages the changes were succesfull
6. I click the Active Changes button again
7. It gets me to the logon page and I relogon to Weblogic console
8. When I recheck the password for my FTP connection it does not reflect the change.
Am I missing anything ? Please advise
Thanks

Thanks Arik for response. I figured it our earlier that I was not pressing the ENTER key after changing the password but just clicking the SAVE button. Well, I have to pull my self out of these kind of beginner blunders.
Since I passed over the hurdle, can I bug you with related question :-
I have the BPEL process that actually is polling for a file using FTP adapter on one of our servers. (This FTP password is not the one I changed in above steps). The same BPEL process after reading the file transforms the XML And sends the output to the other FTP server (for which I had changed the password in the above step. However after I went through the password change and update etc the BPEL process has stopped polling the file from the source FTP server. The file is there but it is not getting picked up and the BPEL process is not gettng initiated.
Do I need to restart the SOA services to make this work ?
Thanks for your help

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