Hi Nikodemus,

You are my hero :)  You are right, weblocks is not part of the sbcl distribution.  I have built a custom core image for my sbcl to load various libs, such as weblcoks.  I switched back to the original core image shipped by sbcl, and everything worked!  Here comes the weird part, I took out only weblcoks in my custom core image and load it again to see if that was the problem.  emacs and slime loaded just fine without it.  However, I decided to put weblocks back in to the image after I have successfully loaded slime, and everything else continued to work!  I don't know why, but everything is working.

The only thing I can guess is that I somehow built a bad image for sbcl.  However, if that's was the case sbcl shouldn't have worked on the command line using the custom image which I have tried before the "fix".  Maybe it's the combination of slime + bad sbcl image?  Whatever it is, thanks for everything Nikodemus.

Aaron