Adding a view to a panel Running Drupal 7, Views 3 and panels 3

Been searching for an answer for this for a few hours now and I can't seem to find one. I am creating a custom user profile page in panels. I created a view to display certain fields from profile2 if that user is of that role. When I test the view at the bottom of the views page by passing it an id it works fine. here are the settings:

Contextual filters:
Node:Nid

Relationships:
Content:Author
(author) User: Profile


Now in panels when I add this view I have the heading Content: Nid with a drop down list in the options. I select the information I want to display and save. Then when I go to the profile page, nothing shows up. I don't think it is passing the nodeid to the view, but I am not sure what I haven't done.
If you create the view as a content pane (panel pane), you are able to select options used in panels on how to receive the context params, (Like from a Panel context of type Node). When adding the content pane in Panels you also get to select which variables should be sent to the view. This is probably what you are missing.