When I start emacs and then edit an org file, ascii export fails (M-x org-export [return key] a). No export file is created and I see the following message:
Autoloading failed to define function org-export-as-ascii
But if I type:
M-x org-customize
then export works. The other way I can get this to work is to manually load org-ascii.el (which came with the org mode distribution).
This is with org-mode version 7.5.
Scott