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On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 07:01:52PM -0500, William Case wrote:
> > Also, have you added a line to your .emacs along the lines of
> > 
> > 	(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/bill/emacs/lisp/org/")
> No.  But I do have 
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode)) as was
> recommended.  Org-4.67 worked with that line.
> 
> I replaced '(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode)) with
> "(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/bill/emacs/lisp/org/")" and version
> 5.17a now opens.

You probably need both.  The addition to the `auto-mode-alist'
variable ensures that when you load any file ending in ".org", emacs
will automatically switch to org-mode.