Fedora 7 and XEmacs 21.5 beta: Can't Find Installed Packages

[Browder, Tom]

I have an init.el file I've used for years and it caused problems when I
first started using XEmacs 21.5 beta as part of the Fedora 7
installation (I've installed the sumo and sumo-mule packages in the
usual place: /usr/lib/xemacs).

(NOTE:  I'm not a lisp programmer; changes to my init.el are from cut
and paste and help from friendly xemacs users over the last 14 years.)

First, I found I had to modify several things in my init.el including
changing such lines as
  
  (require 'dired)

to

  (Init-safe-require 'dired)

But now I can't use dired because xemacs can't seem to find it!

The only reference to "load-path" I have are the following lines I've
had in my init.el ever since the "standard" directory containing it was
changed to "~/.xemacs":

  (setq load-path
    (append (list-nil "~/.xemacs)
      load-path))

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

-Tom