Audit policy being overwritten by "something"

You may want to review the following warning on the help web site:

"Using both the basic audit policy settings under Local Policies\Audit Policy and the advanced settings under Advanced Audit Policy Configuration can cause unexpected results. Therefore, the two sets of audit policy settings should not be combined. If you use Advanced Audit Policy Configuration settings, you should enable the Audit: Force audit policy subcategory settings (Windows Vista or later) to override audit policy category settings policy setting under Local Policies\Security Options. This will prevent conflicts between similar settings by forcing basic security auditing to be ignored."

Which Versions of Windows Support Advanced Audit Policy Configuration?
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd692792(WS.10).aspx

I found the solution. It was very obscure. After applying the fix everything just worked.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spatdsg/archive/2011/06/06/audit-policy-not-registering-audits.aspx