title: Magento cant associate simple to configurable product
body: <p>I created a configurable product and went to the associated products tab and used the quick create product feature to create a bunch of products based on my configurations. However non of these products appear in the list of associated products.</p>
  
  <p>I noticed that the attributes I created don't even show up on the edit product page, on either the simple, or the configurable product.</p>
  
  <p>I started first by creating 3 new attributes for a configurable product I want to add, I setup the options for each one and created a new attribute set based on default that included the new attributes I created.</p>
  
  <p>When I create a new simple product or configurable product, you cannot see the attributes I have created. I have tried with the attributes in the general tab as well as on their own tab. But they are never visible when you try to edit the product.</p>
  
  <p>I'm suspecting the reason I can't associate the products is due to this strange problem</p>
  
  <p>I'm using 1.4.2
  [edited to add my work flow/screen grabs]</p>
  
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  <li><a href="http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/01-attirubte_set.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/01-attirubte_set.png</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/02-create_configurable.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/02-create_configurable.png</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/03-setup_configurable.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/03-setup_configurable.png</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/04-quick_create.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/04-quick_create.png</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/05-associate_product.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/05-associate_product.png</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/06-manage_products.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/06-manage_products.png</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/07-edit_product.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/07-edit_product.png</a></li>
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