I recall hearing at WWDC about how the plists are read in by the GUI tools using Cocoa events (or Apple Events called by a Cocoa app) this is the case for many plist controlled items like screensaver password and some others. So when you delete a plist you need a way to fire of the right event to the system so it refreshes. (No I haven't Googled it but there's the hint :)

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