Can't get aliases to work...

[Digital_Mirage]

Ok, this is pretty frustrating. I do know that on 10.6 I have bash.

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Now, when I look at my .bashrc file at /Users/<username>, I have this fun:

$ cat .bashrc
alias l='ls'
alias la='ls -a'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias lla='ls -la'

In theory, all should be well. However, when I restart the terminal and do ll, it says that the command is not found . Why? This _should_ work in my Linux box, but I have no clue what I'm doing wrong...

Any help is appreciated.