Weird program error on reboot

I am currently trying to write a turtle dispatching system for my single player world (Minecraft 1.6.4), and I am experiencing a weird bug. The program works, but whenever I restart the computer using shutdown or reboot command, it doesn't work as designed.

local ACTIONS=
{
["exit"] = endProgram,
["addturtle"] = addTurtle,
["removeturtle"] = removeTurtle,
["listturtles"] = listTurtles
}
function endProgram()
shell.exit()
end
function addTurtle()
print("Turtle ID: ")
term.setCursorPos(12,4)
id = read()

local h = fs.open("TurtleIDList", fs.exists("TurtleIDList") and "a" or "w")
h.writeLine(id)
h.close()
end
function removeTurtle()
if(not fs.exists("TurtleIDList")) then
  print("No Turtle ID's Saved")
  sleep(3)
  return
end
print("Turtle ID: ")
term.setCursorPos(12,4)
id = read()
local currentTurtles = fs.open("TurtleIDList", "r")
local ids = {}
while true do
  currentId = currentTurtles.readLine()
  if(currentId == nil) then
   print("End Of IDS")
   break
  end
  if(currentId == id) then
   print("ID Removed")
   sleep(3)
  else
   ids[#ids + 1] = currentId
  end
end
currentTurtles.close()

local newTurtles = fs.open("TurtleIDList", "w")
for i, writeID in ipairs(ids) do
  newTurtles.writeLine(writeID)
end
newTurtles.close()
end
function listTurtles()
if(not fs.exists("TurtleIDList")) then
  print("No Turtle ID's Saved")
  sleep(3)
  return
end

local currentTurtles = fs.open("TurtleIDList", "r")
local ids = {}
while true do
  currentId = currentTurtles.readLine()
  if(currentId == nil) then
   break
  end
  ids[#ids + 1] = currentId
end
currentTurtles.close()

for i, writeID in ipairs(ids) do
  print(writeID)
  sleep(1)
end
sleep(3)
end
while true do
term.clear()
term.setCursorPos(1,1)
print("SkyNet Dispatch")
term.setCursorPos(1,3)
print("Action: ")
term.setCursorPos(8,3)
local action = string.lower(read())
action = action:gsub("%s+", "")
local func = ACTIONS[action]
if(func) then
  func()
else
  print("Action '"..action.."' Not Found")
  sleep(3)
end
end

What happens after the computer turns on, is no matter what I type in for an action, it automatically says Actions not found even if it is a valid action. If I Ctrl+T out of the program and run it from terminal again, it works as designed. Until the user restarts the computer, of course. Thanks for your help in advance.

Remember that scripts execute from top to bottom. When you initially run your script on boot, the first thing it tries to do is build your ACTIONS table: but none of the variables you're trying to copy into it contain anything yet, so you "fill" the table with a bunch of nils.

Your script then proceeds to define all of your functions into the global scope, where they remain even when your script terminates. This is why re-running your script then allows you to assign some actual data into the ACTIONS table - the global scope only clears when you reboot your computer.

Note that in later versions of ComputerCraft, the global scope is cleared when a script ends. Generally you should be localising everything you can.

Edit:

It may also help to know that Lua always assigns by value, never by reference. Confusingly, when you attempt to assign a function/table/coroutine you end up assigning a pointer value leading to the relevant area in memory, but working with that pointer value in the variable is not the same as being able to use a variable as a reference.

Thanks!