Issues with installing Time zone patch for Oracle 10.1.0.4 in Windows

All,
I have a working Oracle 10.1.0.4 installation on Windows box, I successfully patched the time zone patches(5865568 and 5126270), OPatch successfully installed the patch. But when I verified if the patch was installed, it says the patch is not installed. I wonder if any one else had this issue.
The only difference in my installation was that my database does not use INIT.ORA but uses SPFILE.
The Post Installation steps called to make certain parameter changes in INIT.ORA and restart the database. In my case I did not do this.
Any ideas?
thx
SS

I'm about to install this patch also. If I'm using an spfile I'll need to create pfile from spfile and modify the parameters in the pfile. When I then restart the database in migrate mode I must then say that I'd like to start using the pfile. Am I correct in assuming this??
OR since I know that I'm using an spfile I could alter the spfile and use whats below. After I restart I can then take out these changes.
ALTER SYSTEM SET system_trig_enabled=FALSE, JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES=0, AQ_TM_PROCESSES=0
COMMENT='Change To Take Effect After Jan 1 Reboot'
SCOPE=SPFILE;
thanks.
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