I won't address all your problems...
> In my .emacs file I have inter alia the following:
>
> (setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
You want
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
> (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)
> (setq reftex-enable-partial-scans t)
> (setq reftex-save-parse-info t)
> (setq reftex-use-multiple-selection-buffers t)
> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) ; with AUCTeX LaTeX mode
> (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) ; with Emacs latex mode
> (line-number-mode 1)
> (gnuserv-start)
> (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
> (setq font-lock-keywords python-font-lock-keywords)
> (font-lock-mode 1))
^
There's an unbalanced parenthesis here.
Plus, this would only turn on font-lock on the initial buffer. In
Emacs-20, you want this instead:
(global-font-lock-mode t)
> (setq abbrev-mode 1)
> (setq text-mode-hook 'iso-accents-mode)
You want
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'iso-accents-mode)
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