Environment variables from ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist not read?

Hello,
I repost this from "Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard > Account and Login" since it was advised to me overthere. Sorry if your already read this one before.
I have a problem defining environment variables that should be visible to all my user processes, not only Terminal. According to the Apple documentation, I need to create a file ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist and define my variables in there.
Below you can see the exact paths and file name, together with the contents of the plist file:
<pre>
/Users/ringods/.MacOSX
AtrisoBook:.MacOSX ringods$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r--@ 1 ringods staff 313 Sep 29 15:35 environment.plist
AtrisoBook:.MacOSX ringods$ cat environment.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>ANT_HOME</key>
<string>/opt/local/share/java/apache-ant</string>
</dict>
</plist>
</pre>
I then tried a logout/login sequence, but no ANT_HOME environment variable was defined. Even after completely rebooting, the environment variable was still not defined. I checked in a Terminal window using any of the following 3 commands:
<pre>
env
export
set
</pre>
This is on a MacBook Pro running 10.5.5. Am I missing something here? Does anyone know how to resolve this?
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