Making footer-left-1, left-2 simply footer-left

Hi,

I can't seem to condense footer left 1, footer left 2, into a single footer left region. Changed both the front--page.tpl, and page.tpl to the following code.

<div id="footer-left">
    		<?php print render($page['footer_left']);?>
        </div>

Changed the info file to:

regions[footer_left] = Footer left
regions[footer_center] = Footer center
regions[footer_right] = Footer right

I've cleared cache, refreshed, cleared cache through performance, visited the theme settings page for bluemasters, and no matter what I do the changes dont take effect.

Still have footer left 1, left 2 is available in the block settings page, and the new one not available.

D6 this was easy, but I'm not sure why it won't work in D7.

Any ideas you might have is appreciated.