Thanks, both. I had been clearing cache, not just refreshing the page :-)  but it turns out there is more than one level of caching to bust here.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Kayode Odeyemi <dreyemi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Steve Edwards <killshot91@gmail.com> wrote:
> This hook is only fired when the menu router is rebuilt, so if you're just refreshing a page, it won't be invoked.
>
> Steve
>
> On Jun 5, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Jeff Greenberg wrote:
>
>> I'm sure I've done something dumb, but I have the following in a typical custom module, in the .module file, and cannot get it to fire. Yes, I've cleared cache, and no, it's not what I *really* want to do in the hook...I just put the exit there to see it fire, since it wasn't doing anything else I asked it to.
>>
>> /**
>>  * Implements hook_menu_alter()
>>  */
>> function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
>>     exit;
>> }

do this:

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
 dsm($items); // this will dump $items vars on all pages
}

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