[Exim] exim - mailman faq not working for me

hey,
I am my wits end here. I have followed the faq to the letter on my debian
woody box.

this is the main problem:

gymaware:~# exim -bt gymaware-users
user "gymaware-users" for file existence test not found
gymaware-users@??? is undeliverable:
  unknown local-part "gymaware-users" in domain "gymaware.com"
gymaware:~#

the relevant exim config bits are below, I'm not sure if its a debian thing
but i don't have the MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck instead there
is a file called ../../../config.db. is this relavent?
I tried changing MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck to
MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.db but that did nothing.

What have i missed?

rob

MAILMAN_HOME=/var/lib/mailman
MAILMAN_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/wrapper
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mailman_transport:
   driver = pipe
   command = MAILMAN_WRAP \
           '${if def:local_part_suffix \
                 {${sg{$local_part_suffix}{-(\\w+)(\\+.*)?}{\$1}}} \
                 {post}}' \
          $local_part
   current_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
   home_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
   user = list                          <--- mailman running as user "list"
   group = list
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mailman_director:
   driver = smartuser
   require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck
   suffix_optional
   suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \
             -confirm+* : -join : -leave : \
             -owner : -request : -admin
transport = mailman_transport