For two days I have been trying to add new customer attribute to the magento database. But it isn't working. I added a simple nickname input field to the register.phtml and edit.phtml following this tutorial:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/customers_and_accounts/registration_fields

Here is the inherent forum post:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/9620/

The attribute is added to the database table eav_attribute, but the value doesn't appear in the customer_entity_varchar.

Here is what I have:

All files are located under app/code/local/Company/

app/code/local/Company/Customer/etc/config.xml

(watch out for: <!-- nickname -->)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Company_Customer>
            <version>0.1.0</version>
        </Company_Customer>
    </modules>
    <admin>
        <fieldsets>
            <customer_dataflow>
                <store_id><system>1</system></store_id>
                <store><ignore>1</ignore></store>
                <entity_id><system>1</system><ignore>1</ignore></entity_id>
                <attribute_set_id><system>1</system><ignore>1</ignore></attribute_set_id>
                <attribute_set><ignore>1</ignore></attribute_set>
                <entity_type_id&g
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