Logger Logs Old Messages

I have the following code that comes directly from the book Core Java vol 1. The last two statements are mine but when I change the last statement's String the message being logged doesn't change. For that manner when I change the level of the last statement the file doesn't update to the correct log level. What am I doing wrong?

Java Code:

public class LogTester
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
if (System.getProperty("java.util.logging.config.class") == null
&& System.getProperty("java.util.config.file") == null)

[code]....

Forgot to say the file also only logs the old message and level from a previous recompilation