creating a static page in zen cart

Hi there,
I am running zencart version 1.3.8a and I am currently trying to create a static page (customer service, shipping information, etc)

I followed the instructions here:
http://www.radebatz.net/mano/2007/07/17/howto-creating-static-pages/

but I get a page not found when I access:
URL: http://[yourhost]/[pathtostore]/index.php?main_page=static&cat=about_us

Is this how one would go about creating a static page that I can link to? I am planning to hardcode some of my header and footer links to point to these static information pages.

any help will be of great help.
thanks !

1. Create the new file
   This needs to be done manually, since zen-cart’s define page editor (under the Tools menu) does not allow to create new files. I would thing this is presumably due to the fact that zen-cart requires a new page handler for each define page and therefore creating the page doesn’t cut it.
   So, create a new file zen-cart/includes/languages/english/html_includes/define_about_us.php
2. Edit
   Once the file exists, the define page editor will let you edit i, so it should show up in the list of define pages.
3. Done
   Yep, that’s it!