Maybe I'm mistaken, but it seems that every-time I commented out a crontab entry,
it will deleted automatically.
eg.
ssh server
crontab -e
commented out an entry using "#", save and quit
Next day
crontab -e
// notice the previously commented entry is disappear
User is root, using vi as editor, running on CentOS 5.7,
and the version of crontab (from man crontab) is Cron V4.1