[CentOS] Question about rebooting and iptables rules persisting

> That occurred to me. But it just seems to me that if the "upstream
> provider" offers this GUI that manages the firewall, then the settings
> should stick after you reboot. That's why I'm nonplussed about this whole
> thing. Unless it has something to do with this being an original CentOS
> 4.0 install and something went amiss during updates, I'm not sure what it
> is. So here is the output Feizhou asked for.
> 

ERm...with Roy's suggestion about rc.local...do you have anything in 
rc.local to messes around with iptables? You could be loading from 
/etc/sysconfig/iptables only to have them all flushed away and replaced 
with something else.

'grep -r iptables /etc' should show up the culprit if there is one.