order of ~/.xemacs/init.el and ~/.xemacs/custom.el

I retransmit a kind of bug report posted to local newsgroup: Suppose there is a (desktop-read) in init.el, and (custom-set-variables '(user-mail-address "morozov(a)novosoft.ru")), in custom.el. Now if desktop being read contains .html file then html-mode asks again and again: "Your mail address: alex＠localhost" or something like that, because it is not yet customized. Surely one can move (setq user-mail-address "") to init.el, before (desktop-read), but there must be a more generic way to address that issue, what do you think? There probably exists a reason not to simply swap the order of execution of init.el and custom.el... Probably there could appear something like "phase3.el"? --alexm