MountImage is unknown command

I re-wrote the tutorial.base from the ground up to get a better understanding of the whole process. But I'm having troubles with mounting weapons...

I have a basic stick...all joints (mountpoint, damage points)...are setup correctly, but I'm getting a this:

<input> (0): Unknown command unmountImage.
   Object LocalClientConnection(1432) GameConnection -> NetConnection -> SimGroup -> SimSet -> SimObject

And the same thing for mountImage

All the hooks are setup in starter.fps I'm having problems tracking down where I'm getting my mountImage and unmountImage commands messed up.

According to the error, I'm just not setup into the hierarchy correctly.

I can mount the image when executing the player.cs through the onAdd method:

function Armor::onAdd(%this,%obj)
{
    parent::onAdd(%this,%obj);
   %obj.mountImage(StickImage,0);
   %obj.setImageAmmo(0,1);
}

but I don't want it to work that way...to tilde and type:

$hero.mountImage(StickImage, 0);

No go...

I can almost answer my own question...but where and how do you setup the parent for the shapebase object that ties into the mountImage/unmountImage methods?...or is that correct at all?

Any ideas?