snort-inline - resetting the "counter"

[<kathya6200 () yahoo com>]

I am using snort-inline as an IPS, and have snort, snort-inline and 
IPtables running on one machine,thanks to Rob's help.  It is successfully 
blocking traffic.  However, ever after stopping, restarting, and rebooting 
machine, I cannot get it to STOP blocking packets! 

I have it set to block after 20 icmp, udp and tcp packets outbound.  After 
I finally got it to work, it pinged 20 times, then blocked.  Now, after 
resetting, I ping 3 times successfully, then it starts blocking.  My burst 
is set to 5 (outbound only?).  Any suggestions?  Do I have to reload the 
ip_queue module?  Who/what is actually doing the packet counting?