is there a known issue with drop down menus when using seam?

i have several richfaces components working in my seam app. and i have rich:dropDownMenu working, but none of the rich:menuItem components are displaying.

there are no errors and as far as i can tell i have everything setup like the demo app.

any ideas?

 <ui:define name="menu">
 <h:form id="menuForm">
 <rich:toolBar id="toolbar">
 <rich:dropDownMenu id="file" value="File">
 <rich:menuItem id="new" submitMode="ajax" value="New" >
 </rich:menuItem>
 </rich:dropDownMenu>
 </rich:toolBar>
 </h:form>
 </ui:define>