Strange terminal command caching while manually running SWUPD.

I've built dozens of software update servers with little issues. This one has me stumped today.
I built a software update server to update solely our Tiger machines. Initially, I had sent a command to the clients that hit the wrong IP address. Once I realized the mistake, I overwrote the plist files on them to reflect the correct address.
Problem is, some of those machines, even tho I have thrown out the plist completely, still seem to be trying to update with the wrong address. I have verified 100 times that the plist is correct. And if I do a softwareupdate -l, it hits the correct address. When I send a softwareupdate -i -a, it gives me this error:
2010-06-29 13:50:50.606 softwareupdate[728] Loading CatalogURL 10.192.170.11:8088
2010-06-29 13:50:50.625 softwareupdate[728] loader:didFailWithError:NSError "unsupported URL" Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1002 UserInfo={
NSErrorFailingURLKey = 10.192.170.11:8088;
NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = "10.192.170.11:8088";
NSLocalizedDescription = "unsupported URL";
Error: unsupported URL
Software Update Tool
The IP address it's reflecting is the original bad address. I'm thinking this has to be cached somewhere, but I've tried it via ARD on fresh machines that had never tried to push any of these commands, and I get the same thing.
I verified that this happens locally in the terminal and via ARD. But if you manually run the software update from the GUI, it goes to the right place and updates fine.

No, this is a Tiger server, updating Tiger clients. We literally update the plist via command line or ARD, and then run the softwareupdate -i -a command.
I have deleted all profile softwareupdate plists via root. It worked on one machine, but not the others. What's odd is that even if i run the software update command locally in the terminal, I still get this error, but if I run it from the Apple menu, it hits the right server and works just fine. So the plist is correct. So I'm wondering what's the difference between where the GUI grabs the address from, and where the terminal command gets it.

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