Paul Krause wrote:
>  I'll update to 1.23 and see if that helps.
It did help.  I don't know what this means for Charles's theory, though,
because I'm on a native NT build (Fabrice's).
 `emacs-version' is a variable declared in Lisp.
  -- loaded from "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.2-b32\lisp\version.el"

Value: "21.2  (beta32) \"Kastor and Polydeukes\" XEmacs Lucid"