xemacs 21.4 under w2k and packages

I installed XEmacs using the net-installer (nice!) on Windows 2000 but didn't select all packages, so later I wanted to download one I forgot... But when I select anything in the Tools->Package menu I get: Signaling: (void-variable allow-remote-paths) file-remote-p("package-index.LATEST.pgp") package-get-remote-filename(("ftp.xemacs.org" "pub/xemacs/packages") "package-index.LATEST.pgp") package-get-locate-file("package-index.LATEST.pgp" t nil) package-get-locate-index-file(nil) (let ((dflt ...)) (list (read-file-name "Load package-get database: " ... dflt t ...))) call-interactively(package-get-update-base) Trying to locate `file-remote-p' (to possibly debug it) I did C-h f and got: `file-remote-p' is a compiled Lisp function -- loaded from "i:\build\xemacs\xemacs\lisp\files.elc" (file-remote-p FILE-NAME) Documentation: Test whether FILE-NAME is looked for on a remote system. I don't have I:... shouldn't it pickup where the runtime files are?