diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/common.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/common.php
index f6e94f9..bdccdb0 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/common.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/common.php
@@ -836,10 +836,14 @@ function vv_log_tail(string $path, int $lines): string {
     return implode("\n", array_slice($all, -$lines));
 }
 
+// See VV_CONF_ARRAY_BODY in config.php for why this cannot stop at the first `)`.
 function vv_parse_bash_array(string $raw, string $varName): array {
-    if (!preg_match('/^\s*' . preg_quote($varName, '/') . '\s*=\s*\(([^)]*)\)/ms', $raw, $m)) return [];
+    if (!preg_match('/^\s*' . preg_quote($varName, '/') . '\s*=\s*\(' . VV_CONF_ARRAY_BODY . '/ms',
+                    $raw, $m)) return [];
+    // Group 2 exists only when the multi-line branch matched; group 1 is the single-line body.
+    $body  = isset($m[2]) ? $m[2] : ($m[1] ?? '');
     $items = [];
-    foreach (explode("\n", $m[1]) as $line) {
+    foreach (explode("\n", $body) as $line) {
         $line = trim(preg_replace('/#.*$/', '', $line), " \t\"'");
         if ($line !== '') $items[] = $line;
     }
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/confform.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/confform.php
index 8db3519..118904d 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/confform.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/confform.php
@@ -813,16 +813,18 @@ function vv_conf_write_file(string $file, array $fileChanges): bool {
                     $raw
                 ) ?? $raw;
 
+            // VV_CONF_ARRAY_CLOSE, not [^)]*\) — see the constant for what the greedy-to-first-paren
+            // version did to a list whose comments contain one.
             } elseif ($type === 'array') {
                 $raw = preg_replace_callback(
-                    '/^(\s*)(' . $qKey . '\s*=\s*\()[^)]*\)/ms',
+                    '/^(\s*)(' . $qKey . '\s*=\s*\()' . VV_CONF_ARRAY_CLOSE . '/ms',
                     fn($m) => $m[1] . $m[2] . "\n" . $value . "\n" . $m[1] . ")",
                     $raw
                 ) ?? $raw;
 
             } elseif ($type === 'assoc_array') {
                 $raw = preg_replace_callback(
-                    '/^(\s*)(declare\s+-A\s+' . $qKey . '\s*=\s*\()[^)]*\)/ms',
+                    '/^(\s*)(declare\s+-A\s+' . $qKey . '\s*=\s*\()' . VV_CONF_ARRAY_CLOSE . '/ms',
                     fn($m) => $m[1] . $m[2] . "\n" . $value . "\n" . $m[1] . ")",
                     $raw
                 ) ?? $raw;
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/config.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/config.php
index 09bdc86..2f5e939 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/config.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/config.php
@@ -645,6 +645,31 @@ function vv_format_uptime(int $seconds): string {
     return ($d ? "{$d}d " : '') . ($h ? "{$h}h " : '') . "{$m}m";
 }
 
+// ── Where a bash array ends ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Both halves of this had the same bug independently, which is why the rule now lives in one
+// place: `[^)]*\)` — run to the first closing paren — is only the array's own close if no entry
+// or comment contains one. HOST1_WATCHDOG_SCAN_IGNORE has carried
+// `# broken test container (exit 127 — bad image)` for weeks, and the two sides failed differently
+// against it:
+//
+//   writing  vv_conf_write_file() spliced the new body into the middle of that comment and left
+//            the real `)` stranded below as a stray token. `bash -n` caught it and vv_conf_edit()
+//            rolled the file back, so no conf was corrupted — but the caller got a bare `false`
+//            with an empty $rejected, and every future save of that list would have failed the
+//            same silent way.
+//   reading  vv_parse_bash_array() stopped there and returned the entries above it, so the array
+//            was quietly short. Only the PHP layer was affected: bash sources the file itself and
+//            always saw every entry, so the watchdogs behaved correctly while the pages under-
+//            reported what they were configured with — the failure mode with no symptom.
+//
+// confform.php's own reader was always right, and this is its rule: a multi-line array closes on
+// a `)` that starts its own line. Parens anywhere else are just text.
+//
+// CLOSE is non-capturing, for splicing a new body in. BODY captures — group 1 when the array is
+// written on one line, group 2 when it spans several.
+const VV_CONF_ARRAY_CLOSE = '(?:[^)\n]*\)|.*?\n[ \t]*\))';
+const VV_CONF_ARRAY_BODY  = '(?:([^)\n]*)\)|\n(.*?)^[ \t]*\)[ \t]*$)';
+
 // Parse a scalar value from raw conf text. Matches KEY="value" or KEY=value.
 // Identical logic was previously duplicated as vv_arr_scalar / vv_wd_scalar /
 // vv_fb_scalar / vv_media_conf_scalar — all reduce to this one regex.