custom search component process method not called

[Steve Pruitt]

I have a custom search component that registered in the last-components list 
for /select.  The component does some bookkeeping.  I got it working using a 
helloworld core using one of the example datasets.
I have a few logging statements to monitor the custom processing.  I have the 
jar with my components in the default server/solr/lib folder.
I created two new cores for my real datasets.  They are very small, around 60 
documents.
I duplicated the custom helloworld solrconfig.xml parts in two new core 
solrconfig.xml files.

I executed a /select on one of the new cores and nothing happened.  The 
init(...) function in my custom component for all three cores is executed ok.  
But, the process(...) and prepare(...) methods are never executed.
I retried the helloworld core and it works fine.

I can't determine why it doesn't work for the two new cores, the process method 
that is.

Why does the init method get called, but not the process method.  The prepare 
method is not called also.

The /select entry request handler config is:

<requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">
    <!-- default values for query parameters can be specified, these
         will be overridden by parameters in the request
      -->
    <lst name="defaults">
          <str name="echoParams">explicit</str>
          <int name="rows">10</int>
    </lst>
    <arr name="last-components">
               <str>saveStateComponent</str>
    </arr>
</requestHandler>

<searchComponent name="saveStateComponent" 
class="mycomponent.SaveStateComponent">
       <str name="savePath">savedState</str>
       <str name="saveHome">${solr.solr.home}</str>
       <str name="saveCore">${solr.core.name}</str>
</searchComponent>


Thanks in advance.

-S
Steve Pruitt