emacs fonts/locale error

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

Hi everyone,

when I run emacs from within X, I suddenly now get the following
message: 

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matt@anarres:~$ emacs .muttrc
No fonts match `-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15'
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this seems especially wierd since my locale is set to en_US, which
uses iso8859-1.  This error does not occur when I run emacs from a
terminal, or when I run 'emacs -nw' to force text mode.  

I have been messing with my locales a bit lately, but I made sure to
dpkg-reconfigure locales, and to set everything back to en_US.  Also I
have been experimenting for the first time with using emacs in server
mode, but commenting out '(server-start)' from my .emacs had no effect
on emacs' behaviour.  

any ideas out there?  thanks,
matt