Temporary Table Not Creating With Rows

Question

I'm running Oracle 9i on Windows XP, and I'm trying to create a temporary table to use in a larger query. The problem is that when I create it using ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS, after creation it has no rows. If I use ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS, then I can't delete it unless I log out and come back.
Here's the query
CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE tempaltid
ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS as (select distributionid
from distributions d
where D.distributionid not in
(select distributionid
from distributionalternatives
where ( distributionalternatives.alternativeid not in (11018,11019,11020,11021,11022,11023,11024,
11025,11026,11475,11476,11477,11478,11479,
11480,11481,11482,11483,11484,11485,11486,
11487,11488,11489,11490,11491,11492,11493,
11494,11495)))
and D.distributiontypeid in
(239,209)
and D.distributionexpdt is null);
I'm not committing after creation, so I don't see why the table would just be empty.

Answer 1

Yes you are, and before too
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/sqlplsql.htm#sthref3520
You don't use global temporary tables like that, you create them once and fill and empty them repeatedly.