[Sussex] Rsync and excluded files

[Bob Williams (SLUG)]

I'm having trouble getting rsync to read/act on my excluded files. The
significant line in my script is

/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete
--exclude-from=/home/bob/Documents/scripts/backup/excludedfiles
/home/bob /home/pub/My_Pictures /home/pub/Shared_Documents
/home/pub/HilsComputer /media/toshiba/backup.0

and the contents of '../excludedfiles' is

/home/bob/bacula
/home/bob/.opera/cache4
/home/bob/Utilities
/home/pub/downloads
/home/pub/vmware

I must be making an obvious mistake, but I can't see it, and would be
grateful if you guys could take a fresh look.
-- 
Bob

SuSE Linux 10.1, KDE 3.5.1