Why can't I restore the controlfile from autobackup?

Running 10GR2
Something that I have always had a problem with is the restore controlfile from autobackup command. RMAN is configured to run autobackyps of the controlfiles.
I have setup a restore test and moved the backups over to the test machine. I have restored the spfile and modified the necessary init parameters. When I startup nomount and try to restore the controlfile from autobackup RMAN says it cannot find an autobackup controlfile.
I have always gotten around this by explicitly naming the controlfile to restore but am wondering what is possibly incorrect in my config such that RMAN doesn't know where to find the controlfile autbackups.
Thanks

Do you have such a configuration?
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default
You must not specify any other format,only '%F'.
FRA structure should like <db_recovery_file_dest>/<SID>/AUTOBACKUP/<date>/<controlfile_backup>. Only when both is true, RMAN will find the autobackup, otherwise it searches in the OS dependent default location.
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