windows - When would a persistent route not be an active route?

I've added a persistent route to our Windows Server 2003 box using "route -p add". After a reboot the "route print" gave this:

Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric    
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      10.91.131.1      10.91.131.9     20
        10.88.0.0  255.255.255.252        10.88.0.1        10.88.0.1     30
        10.88.0.1  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1     30
      10.91.131.0    255.255.255.0      10.91.131.9      10.91.131.9     20
      10.91.131.9  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1     20
   10.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        10.88.0.1        10.88.0.1     30
   10.255.255.255  255.255.255.255      10.91.131.9      10.91.131.9     20
        127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1      1
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        10.88.0.1        10.88.0.1     30
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0      10.91.131.9      10.91.131.9     20
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        10.88.0.1        10.88.0.1      1
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255      10.91.131.9      10.91.131.9      1
Default Gateway:       10.91.131.1
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
  Network Address          Netmask  Gateway Address  Metric
        10.88.0.0    255.255.255.0        10.88.0.2       1

The route I added is listed as a persistent route, but not an active one. Why might this be the case?

The route in question is for an OpenVPN connection, would that have anything to do with it?

Edit I should have mentioned that the route was not working. Only once it was added again did it work. After that it did show in the Active Routes table.