> And I still get the problem when I comment out the 2 find-files and
 > replace the buffer names further down the file with *scratch* and *Messages* -
 > so avoiding the loading lots of cc* libraries

Fine.  I wanted to ask you to do exactly that.  I attach a more
radically stripped file now.  If it works, that is if you still the
usual bad frame and no other bug is thrown, then try to comment out the
"font..." entries one by one.

martin