ediff naming buffers (newbie alert)

[bhenz]

Hi,

(I running emacs 21.4.1)

I am trying to hook into the "ediff-startup-hooks" but ediff completely ignores my attemps. I have the following code in my .emacs file... 

(require 'ediff) 

;; Get rid of the annoying little (separate) ediff window and 
;; turn it into a 3rd pane in the main emacs window. 
(setq ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain) 

;; Put files side-by-side 
;(setq ediff-split-window-function 'split-window-horizontally) 

(defun my-ediff-startup-hooks () 
    (this-is-destined-to-fail) 
)

(add-hook 'ediff-startup-hooks 'my-ediff-startup-hooks) 

OK, so the "this-is-destined-to-fail" is a desperate attempt to get ediff to do SOMETHING, but even this doesn't generate any warnings or errors! which pretty much tells me ediff is NOT using my startup-hook.

Any ideas? Does anyone have example code of doing this similar sort of thing. (Preferrably something simple like just a "print" statement in the new startup hook?

Thanks in advance,
Bob