Italic-Fonts does not change

Hi, I have some problems regarding the change of any argument for the italic fonts via customize-face (all). Regardless what I am doing and what I typed as additional "parameters" for the simple "Italic" font, the font remains unreadable tiny and ugly. Even if I switch off all arguments (any radiobutton in "off"- position, even "italic" switched to off) -- the font remains italic. Restart of X/Xemacs does not lead to any change. If I do same things to -- for example -- the "Modeline" font settings, the word "sample" changes according to the given arguments. This is a little big anoying, cause I am doing much TeX and everytime I use italic like "{\it foo bar}" AUC-TeX switches to its italic font and "foo bar" becomes something like a bit pattern -- unreadable. I called a friend of mine using the same XEmacs but with different font installation. The problem is the same for him. I am using XEmacs 21.4.5 (Civil Service) on Linux 2.4.13ac8 and XFree86 4.1.0. Any help *very* appreciated! Thank you very much in advance ! keep hacking on the right site of life ! :-) Meino PS: Please do NOT post this to the Xemacs-newsgroups, cause these newsgroups seem to be scanned by spammers searching for email addresses a lot. Thanl you!