How do you get the packages to load in 21.4.9 Native or Cygwin?

I've been banging my head against the wall with attempting to get the packages to load. I used netinstaller to download the native version. When I attempt to follow the man pages on how to install packages by hand I get the following error: "Symbols value as variable is void: allow-remote-paths". Additionally I have tried setting the environment variables for EMACSLOADPATH and EMACSPACKAGEPATH as outlined in the PROBLEMS readme left in c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.9. I also made sure the registry entries referenced by the same readme file were set correctly. As a last resort I tried setting both the configure-packages-path and load-path variables, no luck with that either. Then I've tried to explicitly do a load-file and eval-buffer on "./xemacs-packages/lisp/dired.el", but the load failed because it couldn't find the location of the files loaded by dired.el such as dired-xemacs.el. Would someone provide some insight please? What am I missing here? I'm a long time Emacs user and have tried all the ways I could to fix the problem. In my previous experience with emacs and xemacs, once the program loads utilities like dired are available. I've never had this kind of problem before. Thanks, Rich Thanks, Rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com