[CentOS-virt] virsh autostart: cannot set autostart for transient domain

Hello all,
I'm running a newly installed CentOS 5.4 KVM host and am running into
problems setting guests up to autostart. Has anyone seen and/or overcome
this issue?

[root at virt04 ~]# virsh autostart guest02
error: Failed to mark domain guest02 as autostarted
error: internal error cannot set autostart for transient domain

Just for kicks I tried symlinking /etc/libvirt/guest02.xml and
/etc/libvirt/autostart/guest02.xml, but to no avail. I've entered "virsh
create /root/vms/guest2.xml" into /etc/rc.d/rc.local for now.

Thanks
Christopher Hunt