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Thanks to Ronald Kappert <ronaldk@sci.kun.nl> and Lennart Staflin 
<les@ida.liu.se>  for they help.

The solution is to, instead of setting the counter to roman in the preamble
of the list definition:

\newcounter{thelistcounter}
\newenvironment{thelist}%
{\begin{list}{(\roman{thelistcounter})}{\usecounter{thelistcounter}
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
\setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}}}%
{\end{list}}

to change the counter directly:

\newcounter{thelistcounter}
\def\thethelistcounter{\roman{thelistcounter}}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
\newenvironment{thelist}%
{\begin{list}{(\thethelistcounter)}{\usecounter{thelistcounter}
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
\setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}}}%
{\end{list}}

Cheers, Thomas
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