There have now been three reports of problems with emacs in the cygwin and cygwin-xfree mailing lists and I haven't seen anyone stepping in to try to help.
(Other than me, that is, but then I wasn't doing it right, apparently) Do we still have an active emacs maintainer? I don't see Joe's name in either the cygwin or the cygwin-apps mailing lists, which can't be a good sign. Joe Buehler are you still around? cgf