ispell stangeness

I mailed the other day about "Strange behavior with MULE and punctuation on 21.0.65,Solaris 2.5.1." It turns out this si a problem in ispell. If you do M-x ispell-minor-mode and then type: .SPC where SPC, is, you guessed a space, then you buffer will look like: . ^--- cursor I tried to trace what was happening by doing debug-on-entry ispell-minor-check, but I got lost in the bowles of ispell-word. ispell-minor-check is bound to space. The code in question is: (save-window-excursion (save-restriction (narrow-to-region (save-excursion (forward-line -1) (point)) (point)) (ispell-word nil t)))) (command-execute (key-binding (this-command-keys))))) I'm not adept enought with elisp to figure out much else from here. I checked ispell.el, and it had not changed since 21.0.63, and I don't remember it being a problem then. I use ispell-minor-mode for email, so I'm sure I would have noticed. I tried it with -no-init-file, just to make sure that I was not messing something up in my .emacs. No luck. Any help in how to debug this further would be greatly apreciated. Thanks, Andy