NM not recognizing PPTP connection...

["Brian Cardarella" <bcardarella gmail com>]

I have established a PPTP connection with Network Manager (via the
applet), can confirm that it is working but NM doens't recognize it.
The NMapp icon is still disconnected, and all Gnome applications start
start in off-line mode. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04. Any thoughts?

Preferably I would like the PPTP connection to establish automatically
when my mobile usb modem (/dev/ttyACM0) is detected. Any way of doing
this?