Metapost doesn't recognise beginfig

[Iain Alexander]

I have tetex 3.0.0-3 with cygwin 1.5.20 on XP/SP2, and I'm trying to use 
Metapost, but it doesn't recognise beginfig, which is the first non-
comment, non-blank thing in the file:

This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.4) (mem=plain 2006.7.16)  
16 JUL 2006 01:55
**tmpl5x3
(tmpl5x3.mp
>> beginfig
! Isolated expression.
<to be read again> 
                   (
l.3 beginfig(
             1);
? 
^^@:0: Extra tokens will be flushed.
<to be read again> 
                   (
l.3 beginfig(
             1);
? 

Some background which may or not be relevant:  When I first tried to run 
mpost, it couldn't find mpost.mem, so I created one using
mpost -ini '\input plain dump'
and then moved plain.mem to /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c, linked to 
mpost.mem, as per the instructions in the web2c manual.  I then ran 
texhash so it could actually find it.
(end background)

So am I misunderstanding something - have I done something silly.  
Where do I look to figure out what's going wrong here?
-- 
Iain Alexander      ia@stryx.demon.co.uk

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