Unable to read Portlet Preferences set via Portal Admin

I have a portlet which should read the preference values set in the portal admin by an administrator.
I am running the portal as .portal and not in the streaming mode.
After setting the values in the portal administration I always click on propogate to all instances. But when I run the portal in workshop in debugger mode it is not reading the values as stored in Portal admin but it is showing the values which were stored while creating the portlet in workshop in portlet designer.
Please help how to make the portlet read the preference values stored via the portal admin console if the user visits the portal as an anonymous user. Any help is greatly appreciated on this subject. I have searched everywhere but have no solution.
I am using Weblogic Platform 8.1 sp5
Thanks
rj

The portlet preferences set in portal administration reflect only in streaming mode, since streaming mode uses the database that is used by portal administration. If you wish to see the portlet preferences set in portal adminstration, try running in streaming mode.
But when you run portal from workshop ( which would be file mode), it wouldn't pickup portlet preferences created via portal administration.
Note: The easiest way to distinguish a streaming mode from file mode is presence of 'appmanager' in URL.
eg: http://localhost:7001/sampleportal/appmanager/MyPortal/desktop1
Seenu.

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