'make menuconfig' not bringing up current kernel settings

[poulson]

I just went out of town and am rebuilding my kernel to support wireless drivers.
I went into the networking section of device drivers and simply enabled wireless support, however, after rebooting X no longer starts and complains about IDbus specifications.

Since I had unsuccessfully experimented with setting up a bootsplash recently (X didn't seem to like framebuffer support), I feel as if the kernel configurations that are loading in the menu aren't for the current kernel.
Is there a way to force the menu to load the current kernel settings, and not the settings of the last kernel I built?

I know it should be an easy solution, but several google attempts failed. Any help would be appreciated.

[G2k]

doing a `cd /usr/src/ && ls -al' you should see what kernel you are actually working on when doing a `make menuconfig'. It will have the word linux with an arrow next to it pointing to the symlink.
You can see the kernel that you are currently using by typing `uname -a'.
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[poulson]

I am only using one release of the kernel, but I don't think that running:

[Jfr0]

I think the current config is in /proc/config.gz

zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config should do the trick i think