Post initial install problems

I am currently using Fedora Core 3 with GConf2-2.8.1.

When I package up a program that uses gconf as an RPM, after the 
installation of the RPM package, the schema is installed fine, but the 
default values are not available. This causes the program to behave 
badly, as it relies on many of the default schema values to display 
properly.

If I shutdown and restart gconfd-2 before running the program, all is fine.

How do I get this to work properly without having to shutdown and 
restart gconfd-2?

Derrick