New design defaults in Allegro 16.6

Hi,
I have a board called new_default.brd in the location specified by my
wizard_template_path variable but when I start a new drawing without selecting
a specific template I do not get the new_default board settings. Whats new in v16.6
says "New designs can be automatically seeded with a default template design" using
this method. Anyone else found this works or is there something else I should do?
Thanks,
Jim