Hi, I'm having a problem getting slime to work.

I'm new to this, so I apologize if I'm doing something stupid. Here's what happens when I start emacs and type M-x slime

I get a new buffer, called *inferior-lisp* which then outputs the following:

(load "/Users/cfta/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.2167" :external-format :iso-latin-1-uni x) Welcome to OpenMCL Version 1.0 (DarwinPPC32)! ? ;Loading #P"/Users/cfta/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-loader.lisp"... ;Loading #P"/Users/cfta/.slime/fasl/openmcl-1.0-darwin-powerpc/swank -backend.dfs\l"... ;Loading #P"/Users/cfta/.slime/fasl/openmcl-1.0-darwin-powerpc/nregex.dfsl"... ;Loading #P"/Users/cfta/.slime/fasl/openmcl-1.0-darwin-powerpc/metering.dfsl"... ;Compiling "/Users/cfta/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-openmcl.lisp"... ;Compiler warnings for "/Users/cfta/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-openmcl.lisp" : ; Unused lexical variable STREAM, in (MAKE-STREAM-INTERACTIVE (T)). ; Warning: Interface file #P"ccl:darwin-headers;libc;functions.cdb" does not exist. ; While executing: CCL::CDB-OPEN Read error between positions 8480 and 8595 in /Users/cfta/lisp/slime-1.2.1/ swank-openmcl.lisp.

Error in process listener(1): Foreign function not found: DARWIN32::|tmpnam| While executing: CCL::LOAD-EXTERNAL-FUNCTION Type :POP to abort.

Type :? for other options. 1 >

then I'm stuck in the debugger. If I type :pop to abort, I'm able to use the inferior lisp buffer as a lisp interpreter. If I open a new buffer and try to write some code, the mode line says (Lisp Slime[Polling: XXX]) , where the polling number just counts up. Nothing ever happens. None of the compile macros work either- C-c C-c says "not connected."

Is it a problem with the way I've set the system up? I tried to follow the instructions for installing Open MCL and Slime, but I'm not sure I completely understood what I was doing with either.

Thanks.