Variant Configuration - Manual changes to BOM Items

Hi All:
We are implementing Sales ORder (SET) process. Need to have the ability to change BOM Items.
According to SAP documentation referred in the link below, we have set the flag to allow the manual changes to BOM Items in the configuration profile. We have made sure that in the Material BOM configuration the fixed quantity flag is not set.
But it is not working. Not sure if we are missing some other settings.
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/92/58bfb9417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/content.htm
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Raja

this would happen if you have edited the server.xml manually. if you do edit this file for valid reasons and want to keep the changes
please run
asadmin reconfig user admin password secret12 host host.domain.com port 4848 --keepmanualchanges=true server1
then deploy your applications, you should be ok

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