Not seeing sub-nodes in ConfigNode

[Orum]

I have a part config that looks like this:

// ...
MODULE
{
	name = ODFC
	MODE
	{
		LiquidFuel = 0.01
		IntakeAir = 0.15
		MaxEU = 100
	}
	MODE
	{
		LiquidFuel = 0.09
		Oxidizer = 0.11
		MaxEU = 100
	}
//...

I'm trying to read the various MODE sub-nodes I have in my PartModule. However, when I look at it in my code like so:

		ConfigNode pcn = null;

		public void dumpnode() {
			if(pcn.HasNode("MODE")) {
				// code here never reached
			}
			else
				print("No MODEs found.");
		}

		public override void OnLoad(ConfigNode cn) {
			if(pcn == null)
				pcn = cn;
		}

		public override void OnStart(PartModule.StartState state) {
			dumpnode();

			if(state == StartState.Editor)
				return;

			this.part.force_activate();
		}

I never see anything printed except "No MODEs found." Puzzled, I even tried recursively dumping every single name/value pair from the ConfigNode handed to me in OnLoad(), and while I could see the "name = ODFC" pair, along with what appeared to be a few tweakable values, I never saw anything contained within the MODE sub-nodes. So, any idea about what I'm doing wrong? I feel like I've missed something fundamental, but in various examples I've looked at, they don't do anything different that I can see.

[stupid_chris]

Beause you're running this code in OnStart, which only runs once you get to the editor, and OnLoad will run in the loading scene. You'Re switching scenes, and PartModule, which is a MonoBehaviour, unloads private objects. Like your config. Making it public should probably fix that.

[Orum]

Ah, that's incredibly subtle, and was the issue. Thanks!