Problem installing MRU.vim - vim

I downloaded the MRU.vim file and put it in my /.vim folder (along with my other working plugins).
When I try to use
:MRU
i get
"E492: Not an editor command: MRU"
I'm using VIM v7.0 on Mac OSX Snow.
Any thoughts?
update
I installed MacVim which has an option to "Choose a vim script to run". When i load MRU from there MRU starts working.
I've added mru.vim to the autoload folder yet still no joy.

Did you copy it to the .vim/plugin folder?

probably file is in dos format
you can see this by writing
:set ff?
if result is dos
than try using:
:set ff=unix

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