Help requested in setting up auctex.

I'm using GNU emacs 21.3.1 [the stock build with Fedora Core 3] and I 
have installed auctex-emacs-11.54-2.fedora.noarch.rpm as 
auctex-emacs-11.55-1.fedora.noarch.rpm complained about a conflict with 
emacspeak-17.0-7. 

I have this in my .emacs;-
===========================
  (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/")
    (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/")
and later
(require 'tex-site)
;;(require 'tex)
;;(require 'latex)
(setq TeX-auto-save t)
     (setq TeX-parse-self t)
     (setq-default TeX-master nil)
===========================
but when I load in testy.tex [built with kile] and as follows;-
===========================
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}


%opening
\title{just a test}
\author{Sharon Kimble}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
what goes here? can you tell me?
\end{abstract}
\begin{normalsize}
\section{One}
This is purely a play-around file, one of my normal testing-type docs just to
see how it all works. Or doesn't work.\subsection{}
So, what does this do? Hey, this is lookign pretty good.\\
And this?

\end{normalsize}
\end{document}
==========================
I'm expecting a latex-type menu to show in the main menus, but nothing shows.

Is my expectation wrong, or is there something I'm missing in my setup please?

Sharon.
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