panel wont display without arg, but it previews fine. Included views take args as optional

Greetings,

Im a light duty panels user, and Im having some problems. I suspect its an oversight on my part that I can not find.

I have built a panel with 2 views. Each view takes an optional arg of a nodeid. Each view still displays if the arg is not present, in the views module preview.
I configured my panel for 1 arg and set it to NodeId. I set the path to the panel to accept an arg. I setup the context correctly, I think. In the panel config -> view settings I assigned the arg to the context of the panel.

When I preview the panel without any arguments in the panel->preview it works fine.When I preview the path to the panel without an arg it is: Requested page can not be found. I cant figure out where I went wrong. I have attached an export of my panel.

I looked around for a long time last night to an answer and I couldnt find one. I hope I just missed it, but if it is right there in front of my face, please know Im not being lazy and submitting without effort.

Kindly,

Deepsnow

my system specs are:
1. Drupal 6.13
2. CTools 6.x-1.0-rc1
Views content panes6.x-1.0-rc1
Page manager6.x-1.0-rc1
Panels6.x-3.0-rc1
Views6.x-2.6
PHP 5.2.6