diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/command/cmdline.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/command/cmdline.py
index 0ef238448..2282fe19a 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/command/cmdline.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/command/cmdline.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def command_settings(cmdname):
     if basepath:
         try:
             module = __import__('%s.%s' % (basepath, cmdname), {}, {}, [''])
-            update_defaults(settings.defaults, module)
+            update_defaults(settings.overrides, module)
         except ImportError:
             pass
 
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/command/commands/shell.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/command/commands/shell.py
index 76f96a4ed..32bacd20b 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/command/commands/shell.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/command/commands/shell.py
@@ -115,10 +115,6 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
 
         print "Scrapy %s - Interactive scraping console\n" % scrapy.__version__
 
-        print "Enabling Scrapy extensions...",
-        extensions.load()
-        print "done"
-
         def _console_thread():
             
             def _get_magic(shell, arg):