Importing & Paths?

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Having just received my new copy of Intellicad PE+ I installed on saturday.
Set exp' level 'Experienced' set paths to suit my PC structure. Closed Intellicad & restarted (force of habit) went to load one of my menus (used on previous versions of Intellicad) Menu would not load, no error message the command appeared to be completely ignored!!.
Tried the old favourite, put menu file in Intellicad root directory, loads fine!! but none of the associated bit maps have loaded even tho' they ARE in the directory specified in the PATHS dialog.

So 2 questions:-
1/ Must I place ALL menus in the Intellicad root directory (if so why ?)
2/ Why are my bitmaps not picked up from the paths statements? or the blocks referenced in the command in the toolbar?

SteveN