I want to experiment with the pov-mode in Emacs, but am getting an error. I
untarred the three files into /usr/share/emacs/21.2/list/textmodes. I did
not have an .emacs file in my home directory, so I created one whih now
contains only:

(autoload 'pov-mode "pov-mode.el" "PoVray scene file mode" t)
(setq auto-mode-alist
        (append '(("\\.pov$" . pov-mode) 
                  ("\\.inc$" . pov-mode)
                 ) auto-mode-alist))    
(require 'pov-mode) 

When I attempt to start Emacs, or when I remove the last line, start Emacs,
and then try to M-x to pov-mode, I get the following error:

Wrong type argument: listp, "/usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/"

I know that the pov-mode files are in the load path. Emacs does bagin to
load pov-mode before displaying the error. I can switch to perl-mode,
cc-mode, etc. without a problem. 

Any help appreciated. 
 -Shay

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