Background pixmap from X resources broken in latest CVS

I've had things like this in my .Xresources for quite a while: XEmacs.default.attributeBackgroundPixmap: ~/pics/Propaganda/Vol8/Good-Clean-Fun-2.jpg However, it no longer works after the latest CVS update. XEmacs fails to run the initial frame, saying: *** Error in XEmacs initialization (error "Can't instantiate text or subwindow outside a window" [jpeg :file "/home/hniksic/pics/Propaganda/Vol8/Good-Clean-Fun-2.jpg" :data "<FF><D8><FF><E0>^＠^PJ ... bunch of JPEG data ... If I remove the background setting, XEmacs starts up. If I manually set the background with (set-face-background 'default "~/pics/...") it works. Any ideas what happens here?