> Now your task is to figure out where the 68089408 is coming from, and
> why FIND-SYMBOL is being called on it...

I searched every where FIND-SYMBOL is being called in swank, no luck.  The problem is likely to be in SBCL.  I reverted back to a none threaded version of 1.0.14 of SBCL.  Slime was able to load just fine.

Nikodemus, do you have any more suggestions?

Aaron