Losing zmacs region when entering commands

I am experiencing a problem in xemacs 21.5.16 where the zmacs region disappears as soon as I begin typing a command in the minibuffer while the zmacs region is active. For example, I highlight a region and attempt to type M-X indent-region, but as soon as I type the 'i' of 'indent-rgion', the zmacs region is deactivated. The odd thing is that immediately after starting up, zmacs regions seem to work, but after working for a while the behavior that I describe manifests itself and form that point on, zmacs regions do not persist during commands. Has anyone seen such behavior. What can I look for to attempt to diagnose the problem? Thanks in advance.

-- Fred Hart

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uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 atlfhartd 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin

./configure '--pdump' '--with_postgresql=no' '--with-x=no' '--with-gcc' '--with-toolbars=yes' '--with_dragndrop' '--with-xface' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-png' '--with-xpm' '--site_prefixes=/usr' '--prefix=/c/appl/xemacs' '--cflags=-I/usr/include/w32api' '--ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/bin' '--verbose'

XEmacs 21.5-b16 "celeriac" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'.

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