Sounds like the Slash cache is playing tricks on you. Specifically, pages viewed by ACs are cached; pages for logged users are not (well, mostly not).
To see your mods, in real time, you can do any one of this (I usually do it all when things get weird):
a. set cache_enabled to false in the admin variables menu. Useful for debug; not for production.
b. stop and start (not restart) Apache
c. stop and start/etc/init.d/slashd
d. nuke your navigator cache and cookies, stop it and restart.
cache_enabled variable (Score:2)
To see your mods, in real time, you can do any one of this (I usually do it all when things get weird):
a. set cache_enabled to false in the admin variables menu. Useful for debug; not for production.
b. stop and start (not restart) Apache
c. stop and start
d. nuke your navigator cache and cookies, stop it and restart.