Nick was gracious enough to help me dig through a few things with my .emacs . . . it appears I had been able to update the emacs lisp in 
lispdir   = $ usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/org
once so that I was running 7.4 but that wasn't getting updated when I did pulls (need to look into that once)
so, I just had to change my .emacs and add a load path to /org-mode/elisp   so that it would find everything I was updating (I go into /org-mode  to run :
git pull && make clean && make && make install && make doc 



oh, and if anyone has experience on getting make doc to work on cygwin (texi2dvi) it would be appreciated as I haven't quite got that to work right.

Thanks to all on the list, especially Nick for the help, it works great now . . .now to get google weather to work the way I want it to.

Matthew

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
Matthew Sauer <improv.philosophy@gmail.com> writes:

> Should I be able to find org-property-set-functions-alist listed in
> org.el?

Yes:

C-h v org-property-set-functions-alist RET

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 Bastien