Has anyone had problems adding things to the main file menu in userSetup.py?

I'm adding our own save menu, leaving the rest of the menus intact.  I keep
getting the following error when maya starts

 // Error: file:
/data/app/cent5_x86_64/Maya/2011/maya/scripts/startup/FileMenu.mel line 341:
menuItem: Object 'FileMenuRecentFileItems' not found. //


My function is defined in userSetup.py

def CISSaveMenu():
    from MayaUtils.library.maya.python import CISSave

    fileMenu = pm.getMelGlobal('string', 'gMainFileMenu')
    try:
        pm.mel.eval("checkMainFileMenu")
    except:
        pm.mel.eval("buildFileMenu")

    pm.menu(fileMenu, edit=True, tearOff=False)
    CISDivider = pm.menuItem('CISSaveDivider', divider=True,
insertAfter='openFileOptions', parent=fileMenu)
    CISSaveMenu = pm.menuItem('CISSaveItem', parent=fileMenu, label='CIS
Save', insertAfter='CISSaveDivider', command=pm.Callback(CISSave.main,
gui=True))
    CISSaveIncMenu = pm.menuItem('CISSaveIncItem', parent=fileMenu,
label='CIS Save +', insertAfter='CISSaveItem',
command=pm.Callback(CISSave.main, gui=False))
    pm.menu(fileMenu, edit=True, tearOff=True)


And i called later on

from pymel.mayautils import executeDeferred
executeDeferred(CISSaveMenu)

Any ideas?

Also, is there anyway to add option boxes to the menu items?  I was able to
do this in previous versions, but doesn't seem to be the case in 2011, it
always adds the option box to the Exit item.

Thanks!
Justin

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