Rails - May 2006 - RoR completely ignoring a column when saving changes

I have an action that needs to update two models/two tables in one shot, 
and it works great, but ignores one column. Here is the action code: 
(verify_id is irrelevant in this case)

[CODE]
  def edit
    @page_title = "Edit User"
    @page_active_3 = "active"
    if request.post?
      @user = User.find(params[:id])
      @profile = @user.profile
      verify_id(@user.id, true)
      begin
        if @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) and 
@profile.update_attributes(params[:profile])
          flash[:notice] = ''User was successfully updated.''
          redirect_to :action => ''view'', :id => @user.id
        else
          render :action => ''edit''
        end
      rescue
        flash[:notice] = ''Errors occurred when attempting to update, 
contact admin or check production.log''
        redirect_to :action => ''view'', :id => @user.id
      end
    else # if GET request
      @user = User.find(params[:id])
      @profile = @user.profile
      verify_id(@user.id, true)
    end
  end
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here is the view code:

[CODE]
<%= error_messages_for ''user'' %>
<%= error_messages_for ''profile'' %>

<div class="div_form">
	<% if session[:admin] == ''yes'' -%>
	<h2>Login Details</h2>

	<p><label for="user_admin">Administrator
Access</label>
		<%= select ''user'', ''admin'', [
[''no'', ''no''],
										 [''yes'', ''yes''] ] %></p>
	<% end %>

	<h2>Personal Profile</h2>

	<p><label for="profile_first_name">First
Name</label><br />
		<%= text_field ''profile'', ''first_name'',
:class => ''text_medium'' %></p>

	<p><label for="profile_last_name">Last
Name</label><br />
		<%= text_field ''profile'', ''last_name'',
:class => ''text_medium'' %></p>

	<p><label for="profile_location">UY
Location</label>
		<%= select ''profile'', ''location'', [
[''USA'', ''USA''],
											[''South Africa'', ''South Africa''],
											[''UK'', ''UK''],
											[''South America'', ''South
America''],
											[''Europe'', ''Europe''],
											[''Asia'', ''Asia''] ] %>
	</p>

	<p><label for="profile_email">Email
Address</label><br />
		<%= text_field ''profile'', ''email'',
:class => ''text_medium'' %></p>

</div>
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I suspect it may be a model validation problem, but i''ve removed all 
validations for the edit/update action, but here is the model

[CODE]
require "digest/sha1"

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  # Validations
  validates_uniqueness_of       :login_name,
                                :message => ''has already been
taken'',
                                :on => :save, :on => :create
  validates_presence_of         :login_name, :password, :admin,
                                :message => ''is required'',
                                :on => :save, :on => :create
  validates_associated          :profile,
                                :on => :save, :one => :create

  # Associations
  belongs_to                    :profile, :foreign_key =>
''profile_id'',
:dependent => true
  has_many                      :articles

  # Attributes
  attr_accessor                 :password
  attr_accessible               :login_name, :password


.... etc ....
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I should obviously mention that RoR is ignoring the ''admin''
column of
the ''user'' table which should be either
''yes'' or ''no'' . the column is
formatted as a varchar(15) with a default of ''no''

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