Is it possible that you have one of these settings changed in the course.conf file of your admin course? Or in the simple.conf file of the admin course? I don't know how those settings would get into those files, and they shouldn't be there, but if these settings are there it would override what is in the defaults.config and localOverrides.conf files.
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