Can't set font & frame properly in .emacs

[Joe Fineman]

I run Emacs under (sigh) Windows XP.  Before I upgraded to Emacs
22.3.1, the following near the beginning of my .emacs file always had
the right effect:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
;;;;INITIAL SETUP

(setq inhibit-default-init t)

(defun minimize-frame ()
  (interactive)
(w32-send-sys-command #xf020))
             
(defun maximize-frame ()
  (interactive)
(w32-send-sys-command #xf030))
             
(defun restore-frame ()
  (interactive)
(w32-send-sys-command #xf120))

(defun screen-saver ()
  (interactive)
(w32-send-sys-command #xf140))
             
;; start Emacs maximized
(maximize-frame)

;; Font
;; For a list of available Fonts, eval
;; (insert (prin1-to-string (x-list-fonts "*")))
(set-default-font "-outline-Courier 
New-normal-r-normal-normal-*-*-96-96-c-*-iso8859-13")

;; Set rows and columns correctly
(set-frame-width (selected-frame) 155)
;; This is where height on screen is finally set:
(set-frame-height (selected-frame) 63) ;changed from 62 07oc08
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Now, however, the startup seems to skip it.  The defuns are not
evaluated (tho I can eval them by hand & they work).  The frame does
not come up maximized, and the point size is too big.  I added the
first line in case there was a default-init lurking somewhere.  I
tried repeating this section at the end of .emacs in case something in
between was undoing it.  I could find nothing about this aspect
initialization using info, and I cannot remember where I got the
present code -- probably from some long-departed helpful soul on a
newsgroup.

What has changed?

Thank you for your attention.
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---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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