title: Magento Layout Updates not working
body: <p>I'm having a problem with a custom module. The layout update doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the module's config.xml file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
  &lt;config&gt;
      &lt;modules&gt;
          &lt;Pesach_Categories&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.0.0&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/Pesach_Categories&gt;
      &lt;/modules&gt;
  
      &lt;frontend&gt;
  
          &lt;layout&gt;
               &lt;updates&gt;
                    &lt;categories&gt;
                          &lt;file&gt;footer.xml&lt;/file&gt;
                    &lt;/categories&gt;
               &lt;/updates&gt;
          &lt;/layout&gt;
  
      &lt;/frontend&gt;
  
  &lt;/config&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the code in the app/design/frontend/default/MyTheme/layout/footer.xml file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
  &lt;layout version="0.0.1"&gt;
      &lt;default&gt;
          &lt;reference name="footer"&gt;
              &lt;block type="catalog/navigation" name="catList" template="catalog/categories/cat.phtml"/&gt;
          &lt;/reference&gt;
      &lt;/default&gt;
  &lt;/layout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here is the code for app/design/frontend/default/MyTheme/template/catalog/categories/cat.phtml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php foreach ($this-&gt;getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?&gt;
   &lt;div  class="Cen_Wrapper1"&gt;
  
    &lt;span class="BreadCrumbsred"&gt;
    &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getCategoryUrl($_category) ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php echo $_category-&gt;getName(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
     &lt;?php $_children = $_category-&gt;getChildren(); ?&gt;
     &lt;?php if($_children-&gt;count()) : ?&gt;
  
       &lt;?php foreach($_children as $_child) : ?&gt;
   &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getCategoryUrl($_child) ?&gt;"&gt; &lt;?php echo $_child-&gt;getName(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
       &lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;
  
     &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
   &lt;/div&gt;
   &lt;?php endforeach ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The layout updates seem to be coming in (they show up in CommerceBug page layout XML) but they don't seem to do anything.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the following things that i checked:<br>
  The file permissions to the app/design/.../MyTheme/template is rwx r-x r-x<br>
  The file permissions to the app/design/.../base/default is rwx r-x r-x</p>
  
  <p>The issue is not limited to the custom module...there is another module (<code>FME_Shop_by_manufacturers</code>) that tries to make layout updates to the head and it also doesn't work.</p>