emacs cannot recognize major version number 21.

[mike]

Seems during a recent upgrade of emacs my .emacs file is now breaking
things...reporting "Cannot recognize major version number : 21"
whenever I open a file.  When I start emacs with --debug-init turned
on the following message is reported (see below).  The emacs version
is 21.2.2.  Any thoughts on this?

.......

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot recognize major version
number: 21")
  signal(error ("Cannot recognize major version number: 21"))
  error("Cannot recognize major version number: %s" 21)
  byte-code("ÀÁ!