Two problems:
1. Preference was stored as percent which splitter did not like to load directly
2. Etemplate was triggering the final finish-up, which triggered resize(), which stored the default as preference before the splitter got to its _init_splitter(),
Two problems:
1. Preference was stored as percent which splitter did not like to load directly
2. Etemplate was triggering the final finish-up, which triggered resize(), which stored the default as preference before the splitter got to its _init_splitter(),