problem creating widget

Hi, I am trying to create a widget that will let me display the recent posts. I know this is already built in, but I want to customize what is displayed. So I thought I would make a widget that would display recent posts the way I want to see them. I have made the widget, but it does not show up in sidebar widgets. (Yes I did upload the widget, activated them etc etc) There is something wrong with my code but I dont know what to look for to fix it. I based this on the recent entries code in the widgets plugin.
My code is as follows:

<?php

// This gets called at the plugins_loaded action
function widget_recentposts_init() {

// Check for the required API functions
if ( !function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') || !function_exists('register_widget_control') )
return;

// This saves options and prints the widget's config form.
function widget_recentposts_control() {
$options = $newoptions = get_option('widget_recentposts');
if ( $_POST['recentposts-submit'] ) {
$newoptions['title'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['recentposts-title']));
}
if ( $options != $newoptions ) {
$options = $newoptions;
update_option('widget_recentposts', $options);
}
?>
<div style="text-align:right">
<label for="recentposts-title" style="line-height:35px;display:block;">Widget title: <input type="text" id="recentposts-title" name="recentposts-title" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($options['title']); ?>" /></label>
<input type="hidden" name="recentposts-submit" id="recentposts-submit" value="1" />
</div>
<?php
}

// This prints the widget
function widget_recentposts($args) {
extract($args);
$title = __('Recent Posts');
$r = new WP_Query('showposts=10');
if ($r->have_posts()) :
?>
<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
<?php echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>

<?php while ($r->have_posts()) : $r->the_post(); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(''); ?>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
</div>

<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
<?php
}

// Tell Dynamic Sidebar about our new widget and its control
register_sidebar_widget('Recent Posts', 'widget_recentposts');
register_widget_control('Recent Posts', 'widge_recentposts_control');

}

// Delay plugin execution to ensure Dynamic Sidebar has a chance to load first
add_action('plugins_loaded', 'widget_recentposts_init');

?>