Lone Wolf Development Forums - problem with [menu

So I have a component.

Code:

<component

    id="SkillGen"

        name="Skill Generation"

        autocompset="no">

        <field

          id="sgSP"

          name="Skill Points"

          type="static">

          </field>

        </component>

and a compset

Code:

  <compset

    id="SkillGen">

        <compref component="SkillGen"/>

        </compset>

Those are both in the same .str file.

Now I also have some things.

Code:

  <thing

    id="sgRoll"

        compset="SkillGen"

        name="Roll"

        description="The character gets 3 rolls on the Growth and Learning tables for the choosen Background.">

        <fieldval field="sgSP" value="3"/>

        </thing>

        

  <thing

    id="sgChoose"

        compset="SkillGen"

        name="Choose"

        description="The character gets 2 choices on the learning table only.">

        <fieldval field="sgSP" value="2"/>

        </thing>

They are in a .dat file.

I have modifed form_config.dat to include the following in the cnfStart template.

Code:

<portal

          id="skillgen"

          style="menuNormal">

          <menu_things

                field="acSkillGen"

            component="SkillGen"

                defthing="sgRoll">

                </menu_things>

          </portal>

When I load hero lab and select the game system the menu is not defaulting. It has no selection.
I have tried bootstrapping the things and using picks but that hasn't worked either. Is there may be something related to the file extensions being used?