Getting "Searching for program: permission denied, nil"

I'm getting a strange message that I can't seem to debug easily and was
wondering of someone else has seen this or knows how to approach
it. This does not happen when I run "emacs -Q" so I know it's my
setup...I just don't know where.

When I open a Java or Python file with Emacs 24.3.1 on Windows 7, I get
the message

  Searching for program: permission denied, nil

in the mini-buffer and the *Messages* buffer. After turning on
debug-on-error, opening the Java file gives that message but does not
give a backtrace, but opening a Python file (with dired or C-x C-f)
gives:

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Searching for program" "permission denied" "nil")
    start-process("Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" #<buffer  *Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]*> "nil" "-i")
    apply(start-process "Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" #<buffer  *Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]*> "nil" "-i")
    start-file-process("Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" #<buffer  *Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]*> "nil" "-i")
    apply(start-file-process "Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" #<buffer  *Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]*> "nil" "-i")
    comint-exec-1("Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" #<buffer  *Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]*> "nil" ("-i"))
    comint-exec(#<buffer  *Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]*> "Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" "nil" nil ("-i"))
    make-comint-in-buffer("Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" " *Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]*" "nil" nil "-i")
    apply(make-comint-in-buffer "Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" " *Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]*" "nil" nil "-i")
    python-shell-make-comint("nil -i" "Python Internal [b729f4feaab20022667537407a0cb5af]" nil t)
    run-python-internal()
    python-shell-internal-get-or-create-process()
    python-shell-internal-send-string("import sys;print ('\\n'.join(sys.path))")
    semantic-python-get-system-include-path()
    (progn (semantic-python-get-system-include-path))
    (if (and (featurep (quote python)) (not noninteractive)) (progn (semantic-python-get-system-include-path)))
    (when (and (featurep (quote python)) (not noninteractive)) (semantic-python-get-system-include-path))
    eval((when (and (featurep (quote python)) (not noninteractive)) (semantic-python-get-system-include-path)))
    custom-initialize-reset(semantic-python-dependency-system-include-path (when (and (featurep (quote python)) (not noninteractive)) (semantic-python-get-system-include-path)))
    custom-declare-variable(semantic-python-dependency-system-include-path (when (and (featurep (quote python)) (not noninteractive)) (semantic-python-get-system-include-path)) "The system include path used by Python language." :group python :group semantic :type (repeat (directory :tag "Directory")) :set #[(sym val) "\303	\"\210	\304\305\nBC\306\307#\210\310\311\307\"\210\n\210)\312\313!\205\"
  
If I try to open the file again, it seems to work. Any ideas what this
mystery program is? Thanks in advance.

Sarir

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Sarir Khamsi
software guy
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