Update:
It would appear that because player are so willing to "Board Hop" (Reload) for purposes of their choosing, Frontier has now made it a mandate.
When I pinned the pulse at Broo, I checked to make sure it was pinned by looking in the engineering menu, I had indeed pinned it. Went back to Jameson to switch out the laser's and it wasn't pinned.
Resolve was to go back to Broo, repin it, reload (Board Hop) and it stayed. I've found that one must reload in order to finalize a lot of things. Though one doesn't have to all the time, one doesn't know at which time they must, thus in order to make sure, one must reload all the time.
I don't mind haveing to reload depending on my purpose, but the mandate Frontier has imposed is as-sine.