emacsclient won't open new frame on remote display

[Otto Maddox]

$ /usr/local/emacs/bin/emacs -Q &
M-x server-start

Go to a new xterm window and do this:
$ ssh -X localhost
$ emacsclient --display=$DISPLAY some-file

The buffer for some-file is opened, but not in a new frame and is not
displayed in any existing window.

*Messages* now has this:

Loading server...done
error in process filter: server-process-filter: Attempt to delete the sole 
visible or iconified frame
error in process filter: Attempt to delete the sole visible or iconified frame

There is a connection to the display:

(x-display-list)
=> (":0.0" "localhost:11.0")

But even though no apparent frame was opened, I cannot close the X
connection:

(x-close-connection "localhost:11.0")
=> (error "Display still has frames on it")

In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0, X toolkit)
 of 2006-06-26
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs/' '--with-x' 
'--without-carbon' '--with-x-toolkit=athena''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<options> <blink-cursor-mode> <escape> x s e r v <tab> 
s t <tab> <return> <switch-frame> C-x C-b C-x o <down> 
<down> <return> M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Blink-Cursor mode disabled
Loading server...done
error in process filter: server-process-filter: Attempt to delete the sole 
visible or iconified frame
error in process filter: Attempt to delete the sole visible or iconified frame
Making completion list...
Loading help-mode...done
Loading emacsbug...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading emacsbug...done

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