network-manager-applet doesn't connect to hidden wireless when settings are entered through right-click > "Edit Connections..."

there are a lot of bug reports for the network manager applet, so forgive me if this is a dup.

What happens:
When I left-click the applet and select "Connect to hidden Wireless Network..." and enter my SSID and my WEP (40/128 bit) key, the connection works fine. However, if I instead right-click the network-manager-applet and choose "Edit Connections..." > Wireless > Add > and enter my connection info, the connection never works.

What I expect to happen:
I expect that if I enter the connection manually through the edit dialog it should also connect. Is it possible that it doesn't connect because the SSID isn't being broadcast? I cannot locate a method to force connections to a non-broadcasting network.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Feb 6 10:48:00 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.132 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth2 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.5 dev eth2 proto static
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686