[Bug-AUCTeX] 11.82; preview.sty outdated in prepackaged windows binary

[The Senator]

Remember to cover the basics.  Including a minimal LaTeX example
file exhibiting the problem might help.

I was told on comp.text.tex to report that preview.sty is outdated. For reference, the Google groups thread is:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_frm/thread/d6caf1b611b46f5c/1889d243c8c41cbe#1889d243c8c41cbe


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2006-01-29 on NEUTRINO
Package: 11.82

Run buffer contents:

Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `_region_' with ``latex.exe "&prv_circ" _region_.tex''
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (MiKTeX 2.1)
(_region_.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, ngerman, du
mylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
CUSTOMISED FORMAT. Preloaded files:
        .
    circ.tex
 article.cls    2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX file (size option)
   babel.sty    2001/03/01 v3.7h The Babel package
 germanb.ldf    2001/01/26 v2.6k German support from the babel system
 fontenc.sty
   t1enc.def    2001/06/05 v1.94 Standard LaTeX file
inputenc.sty    2001/07/10 v0.99a Input encoding file 
  latin1.def    2001/07/10 v0.99a Input encoding file 
 preview.sty    2002/04/13 preview-latex 0.7.2b
prtightpage.def
prauctex.def
prauctex.cfg
prshowlabels.def
  t1cmtt.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
  t1cmss.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
        .
No file _region_.aux.
 !name(circ.tex) !offset(39) 
! Package Preview Error: Snippet 1 started.
<-><->
      
l.39 \begin{eqnarray}
                     
! Package Preview Error: Snippet 1 ended.(4020438+350222x15911903).
<-><->
      
l.44 \end{eqnarray}
                   
[1]  !name(circ.tex) !offset(432)  )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on _region_.dvi (1 page, 1272 bytes).
Transcript written on _region_.log.

Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Wed Feb 08 15:10:46
Running `Preview-DviPS' with ``dvips -Pwww _region_.dvi -o "_region_.prv/tmp2984EOP"/preview.ps''
This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2006.02.08:1510' -> _region_.prv/tmp2984EOP/preview.ps
<texc.pro><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmex10.pfb><cmsy10.pfb><cmr10.pfb>
<cmmi10.pfb>[1] 

Preview-DviPS finished at Wed Feb 08 15:10:46
Running `Preview-Ghostscript' with ``"GSWIN32C.EXE"
"-dOutputFile=(_region_.prv/tmp2984EOP/pr1-%d.png)" "-q" "-dSAFER"
"-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted" "-dTextAlphaBits=4"
"-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4" "-sDEVICE=png16m" "-r99.568x106.206"''

Preview-Ghostscript finished at Wed Feb 08 15:10:48


current state:
==============
(setq
 AUC-TeX-version "11.82"
 LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) %S%(PDFout)"))
 image-types '(png tiff jpeg xpm xbm pbm)
 preview-image-type 'png
 preview-image-creators '((dvipng
               (open preview-gs-open preview-dvipng-process-setup)
               (place preview-gs-place)
               (close preview-dvipng-close))
              (png (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
               (close preview-gs-close))
              (jpeg (open preview-gs-open)
               (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
              (pnm (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
               (close preview-gs-close))
              (tiff (open preview-gs-open)
               (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
              )
 preview-dvipng-image-type 'png
 preview-dvipng-command "dvipng -picky -noghostscript %d -o \"%m/prev%%03d.png\""
 preview-pdf2dsc-command "pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"
 preview-gs-command "GSWIN32C.EXE"
 preview-gs-options '("-q" "-dSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted"
              "-dTextAlphaBits=4" "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4")
 preview-gs-image-type-alist '((png png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
                   (dvipng png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
                   (jpeg jpeg "-sDEVICE=jpeg")
                   (pnm pbm "-sDEVICE=pnmraw")
                   (tiff tiff "-sDEVICE=tiff12nc"))
 preview-fast-conversion t
 preview-prefer-TeX-bb nil
 preview-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww -i -E %d -o %m/preview.000"
 preview-fast-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww %d -o %m/preview.ps"
 preview-scale-function 'preview-scale-from-face
 preview-LaTeX-command '("%l \"\\nonstopmode\\nofiles\\PassOptionsToPackage{"
             ("," . preview-required-option-list)
            
"}{preview}\\AtBeginDocument{\\ifx\\ifPreview\\undefined"
preview-default-preamble "\\fi}\\input{%t}\"")
 preview-required-option-list '("active" "tightpage" "auctex"
                (preview-preserve-counters "counters"))
 preview-preserve-counters nil
 preview-default-option-list '("displaymath" "floats" "graphics" "textmath"
                   "sections" "footnotes")
 preview-default-preamble '("\\RequirePackage["
                ("," . preview-default-option-list)
                "]{preview}[2004/11/05]")
 preview-LaTeX-command-replacements nil
 preview-dump-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-command-replacements
          
      ("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( -\\([^
\"]\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\)\\(.*\\)\\'" "\\1 -ini \"&\\1\" "
preview-format-name ".ini \\5")
                 )
 preview-undump-replacements '(("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( -\\([^
\"]\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\).*\\input{\\([^}]*\\)}.*\\'" "\\1 \"&"
preview-format-name "\" \\5")
                   )
 preview-auto-cache-preamble 'ask
 )

Output from running `GSWIN32C.EXE -h':
GPL Ghostscript 8.50 (2005-12-31)
Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
 -dNOPAUSE          
no pause after page   |
-q       `quiet', fewer messages
 -g<width>x<height>  page size in pixels   | -r<res>  pixels/inch resolution
 -sDEVICE=<devname>  select
device         | -dBATCH 
exit after last file
 -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
                                        
embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Default output device: display
Available devices:
   bbox bit bitcmyk bitrgb bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 bmp16 bmp16m bmp256
   bmp32b bmpgray bmpmono bmpsep1 bmpsep8 cdeskjet cdj550 cdjcolor cdjmono
   declj250 deskjet devicen display djet500 djet500c eps9high eps9mid epson
   epsonc epswrite ibmpro ijs jetp3852 jpeg jpeggray laserjet lbp8 lj250
   ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 ljet4d ljetplus m8510 mswindll mswinpr2 necp6
   nullpage pbm pbmraw pcx16 pcx24b pcx256 pcxcmyk pcxgray pcxmono pdfwrite
   pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pj pjxl pjxl300 pkmraw png16 png16m png256
   pngalpha pnggray pngmono pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw psdcmyk psdrgb psmono
   pswrite pxlcolor pxlmono r4081 spotcmyk st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4
   t4693d8 tek4696 tiff12nc tiff24nc tiff32nc tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d
   tiffg4 tiffgray tifflzw tiffpack tiffsep uniprint
Search path:
   . ; C:\gs\gs8.50\lib ; C:\gs\fonts ; C:\gs\gs8.50\Resource ;
   c:/gs/gs8.50/lib ; c:/gs/gs8.50/Resource ; c:/gs/fonts
For more information, see c:/gs/gs8.50/doc/Use.htm.
Report bugs to address@hidden, using the form in Bug-form.htm.