dotnetnuke dnnLEFTMENU doesn't show up in custom skin

I'm working on my own dotNetNuke skin, and I'm trying to add a dnnLEFTNAV to my skin. However, I'm having trouble getting it to show up in the skin itself. This is what my invocation in my .html skin looks like:

<object id="dnnLEFTMENU" codetype="dotnetnuke/server" codebase="LEFTMENU">
    <param name="Width" value="165px" />
    <param name="ShowOnlyCurrent" value="RootItem" />
    <param name="MaxLevel" value="2" />
    <param name="EnableEmbeddedSkins" value="false" />
    <param name="Skin" value="MinimalExtropy" />
</object>

When the skin is uploaded, the .html is converted to .ascx, and the incovation ends up looking开发者_开发技巧 like this:

<dnn:LEFTMENU runat="server" id="dnnLEFTMENU"  Width="165px" ShowOnlyCurrent="RootItem" MaxLevel="2" EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" Skin="MinimalExtropy" />

There's also a header:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="LEFTMENU" Src="~/Admin/Skins/LeftMenu.ascx" %>

However, when I look at the completed page, there is absolutely nothing where the LEFTNAV should be.

What makes this even odder is that I essentially pulled this code verbatim out of the Minimal Entropy skin, and a test page with the Minimal Entropy skin has the nav showing up as expected.

Any ideas?

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Oh boy is my face red. The page I was using the LEFTMENU on had no child menus...I was expecting it to include same-level items or at least the shell of an empty navigation but apparently not.

PBKAC