Hello people,
i try to display the following:

<s:decorate id="matchSkillsDecorate" template="display.xhtml">
 <ui:define name="label">Skills:</ui:define>
 <rich:pickList id="pickedSkills"
 value="#{userRegistration.pickedSkills}" style="width; auto">
 <s:selectItems id="skills" value="#{skills}" var="_skill"
 label="#{_skill.skillDescription}"/>
 <s:convertEntity/>
</s:decorate>

When i submit the form (through h:commandButton) pickedSkills property (List) gets set with an empty ArrayList. userRegistration is a stateful bean under default scope. #{skills} is also a List already populated (i can see skillDescription on the pick list and can move items from box to box). Does anyone have any idea why such weird behavior? I gues i did something stupid but i can't yet figure out what. Is it the scope, the component tree?

I am using seam 2.1 cr1 on jboss 4.2.3ga and rich faces 3.2.2.BEAT4

Absolutely any suggestions will be useful to me. Thank you very much.