System Preferences - Web Sharing...

I've enabled Web Sharing and have been using it without issues, but recently (within the last week) I noticed that in the Web Sharing properties, where is usually displayed the "computer's website" and "personal website" url's as being "http://ip address/" and "http://ip address/~shortname" now says "http://my computer name.home/" and "http://my computer name.home/~shortname".
So I changed my computer name to something different, restarted the computer, and it still says the previous computername.
Apache still works, but it just bothers me that A. something has changed that I don't know about, and B. i want it to say my ip address or something I set it to.
Can anyone tell me how to change this or fix this or figure out what's happened.
Has anyone else had a similar issue?
Thank you.

@Reetnem: I'm not sure what causes that to change. I ended up reinstalling Leopard which fixed this, cause everything went back to the default!
I removed everything relating to Apache, which no doubt broke it and I spent over 5 hours trying to fix it, which I ended up accomplishing, but it just didn't feel right that my system was so screwed up, so I reinstalled.
I still want to know what changes this, so I'll keep researching. If I found out I'll post it here!

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