You need to touch Web.config to make it reload settings, it will not detect changes to user.config
you cannnot use user.config.sample, you need to rename that to user.config in order to use it and then if you do that you also need to move your connection string into user.config because settings there override settings from Web.config
I do not have those settings on mojoportal.com because I don't want the menu to show on site map, it is redundant.
Hope it helps,
Joe