Loading Menus and Global Variables when Maya starts up

[offtherack]

I know this is probably simple but I can't seem to get it working and I'm no wizard with MEL by any means. I'm using maya 2009 on Mac OS X.
Basically I have a few MEL scripts I wrote that I want to execute as soon as Maya starts up so that my custom menu loads and a few global variables are created that I use frequently in my MEL scripts. I can do this manually in Maya so I know my MEL scripting is correct. I just can;t get these going on startup.

Years ago I used to just add a few procs to the userSetup.mel that was installed with bonusTools. I tried creating a userSetup.mel file (in my default script path where all my scripts are) and added a few commands to it that would create the variables and the menu but it doesn't work.

Is there some new way to do this or do I need to put the userSetup.mel file in a specific place, or is there a specific way to automatically create global variables and load up my menu?

Thanks

[joojaa]

No you put your code in a file named userSetup.mel. Now the trick is that there needs to be one and ONLY one userSetup.mel or you get a conflict, so put a print in your user setup if it doesnt print then you have another one that you need to delete or modify,

Please note the GUI is not built when you run this so odds are you may want to evalDeferred the code or hook it up on some menu load. So just because your code works in a gui mode does not mean the it works in userSetup.mel.

PS: you should convert your global vars to option vars instead!