Brush Entities not Working Thread

I've had this problem since I first started using Hammer. If I compile and test a map with brush entities and then go back into hammer, they are still labeled as their respective entities in the 2d window, but when I try to open up one's properties, it just gives me the properties for a standard cube brush. Thus I have to completely redo the properties for all of my brush entities every time I test. Its unbelievably frustrating.

Does anyone know whats going on?

check to make sure you dont have 'solids' selected. You have the option of either groups, objects or solids. if you have 3 brushes tied to an entity for example, using objects and groups would select all 3 of them, but solids discards the fact its an ent so it selects the individual brush and doesnt give its properies. So just check to the right of the screen and make sure objects is selected.

Right. In other words i would say: Be sure you have not checked the ¨ignore groups¨ button, when you want to edit entities properties.