Mounting Flashlight Objects

I'm having difficulty loading a flashlight object into the players hand(don't want to use Images since I am going to attach a light to the flashlight). The code I am using is the following and I have placed this in the game.cs in the createPlayer method. In debug everything looks like it succeeded, but the flashlight just does not show.

I'm sure I'm doing something really stupid here. Hope someone can tell me what I am doing wrong.
thanks, John


//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
datablock ItemData(Flashlight)
{
category = "Accessories";
className = "Weapon";
shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/flashlight/flashlight.dts";
mass = 1;
elasticity = 0.2;
friction = 0.6;
emap = true;
pickUpName = "a flashlight";
};

// Inside createPlayer() ...
// %player.setInventory(Crossbow,1);
// %player.setInventory(CrossbowAmmo,10);
// %player.mountImage(CrossbowImage,0);

%myFlashlight= new ItemData() {
dataBlock = Flashlight;
};

%player.mountObject(%myFlashlight, 0);