Sliders affect values even when not connected? Compile issue?

I originally had sliders to drive 4 channels. I hate sliders though so I add Values and connected them to channels the Sliders were driving. Oddly, all of the sliders still show in the Inspector and still drive the values even though they are not connected to anything in the node graph. This along with my alpha issue makes me think dragging a new connection onto something that is already connected is not properly removing the old connection.

I have recorded a video for this. Link