Larry Ayers <layers(a)marktwain.net&gt; writes: ... My solitary blonde brain cell has a vague memory of this being reported before somewhere around March/April of this year. I made some fixes to finder.el at that time to strengthen processing in the face of errors. The likeliest cause is mixing Mule packages into a non-Mule XEmacs. The finder-inf.el in my XEmacs build will certainly choke a non-Mule XEmacs: ("skk-auto.el" "送り仮名の自動処理のためのプログラム" (japanese) "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/skk/") ("skk-comp.el" "補完のためのプログラム" (japanese) "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/skk/") ("skk-foreword.el" "前書き" (japanese) "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/skk/")