[CentOS] Firewall will not disable - stumped!

very perplexed here - I need to turn off iptables. Ive tried

service iptables save
service iptables stop
chkconfig iptables off

service ip6tables save
service ip6tables stop
chkconfig ip6tables off

edited
OPGX280 ~ # cat  /etc/sysconfig/system-config-firewall
# Configuration file for system-config-firewall
--disabled
--service=ssh

OPGX280 ~ :( # cat  /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled

OPGX280 ~ :( # chkconfig |grep ip
ip6tables       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
ipmievd         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
ipsec           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
iptables        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
ipvsadm         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off


Yet - when I reboot  iptables gets started  - if I run

OPGX280 ~ # /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status
Table: filter
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
num  target     prot opt source               destination
1    ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:53
2    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:53
3    ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:67
4    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:67

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
num  target     prot opt source               destination
1    ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            192.168.122.0/24    state
RELATED,ESTABLISHED
2    ACCEPT     all  --  192.168.122.0/24     0.0.0.0/0
3    ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
4    REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
5    REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
reject-with icmp-port-unreachable


Note -->  192.168.122.0/24 is NOT my network, I just want the status to
tell me iptables is NOT running

What else can I look for??

Thanks
Bob