Konsole Bell Setting

Hi, I am unable to get Konsole to retain my setting for how to deal with the Bell (CTRL-G). Every time Konsole is restarted (upon login as part of my remembered session), the Bell setting reverts to "System Bell" and I have to manually change it, on a tab-by-tab basis, to "System Notification". I found I had the same problem with the history setting reverting from the 5000 I'd set to 1000 (possibly a default, possibly a change I had made earlier) but by editing the Konsole "rc" file ("$HOME/.kde/share/config/konsolerc"), but that technique does not seem to be working with the Bell problem. Can anyone shed some light on this? Is there a known work-around? Thanks. Randall Schulz