CMS Recent Comments Widget: Deleted comments still show; cleared cache.
 

Today I pruned about a half-dozen spam comments on various articles. After pruning the comments I noticed that they were still showing in the Recent Comments widget. I cleared the CMS cache, still there. I then rebuilt thread and post info under maintenance and cleared CMS cache again, yet they still show there.

The comments were hard deleted, and do not exist anymore. I want so far as to clear my browser cache, try another browser, and restart the web server to eliminate those possibilities. I noticed that the cache time of the widget was set to 1440 minutes (for god sake why?) so I changed it to 1 minute, waited a good 5 minutes but the comments were still showing. So I cleared the CMS cache again and they're still showing. So I went in and emptied the searchlog table, cleared CMS cache, cleared browser cache and even well after an hour since I've deleted those comments they still appear in the widget.

This is a major problem.