SyntaxInformation ignored when MA creates a package automatically - .m file

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$Version
“9.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (January 25, 2013)”

I have a line in my .nb file that reads comething like this:

SyntaxInformation[myFunc] = {"ArgumentsPattern" -> {_, _}};

I tried placing it in both the private and public sections - same result
When Mathematica writes the .m file upon saving the notebook the SyntaxInformation line is simply missing
If I manually add it to the .m file things work as expected. Is there something I’m not doing right?

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Is the cell that contains the “SyntaxInformation = …” statement an initialization cell? (it needs to be, to be included in the auto save package)

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/AutoGeneratedPackage.html

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Yes it is…the entire nb file actually contains just one initialization cell

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Do you have a version of this notebook that you can share here? It’s difficult to answer this question without seeing the exact problem.