font mapfiles

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

I just had to reinstall my TeX installation (upgrade to OS X 10.4).  
After mucking around with my old TeX, I decided to reinstall, and I  
hit a problem: even though I ran updmap, ConTeXt doesn't seem to work  
with the fonts I installed myself unless I include the \loadmapfile 
[foo] either in the typescript or in the source file. This wasn't the  
case before. I also tried moving the mapfiles to texmf/fonts/map/ 
pdftex/context insteadt of just fonts/map/, but that didn't change  
anything. Am I missing something obvious, or is this the expected  
behavior? I much prefer to have system-wide mapfiles since I use  
LaTeX from time to time and want the same fonts available there. They  
work with plain pdfetex as well, it's just ConTeXt that gives  
trouble. So my question is: is this the new setup, are we supposed to  
load mapfiles this way, and what is the advantage over the old method?

Thanks!

Thomas