Problem launching cygwin shell from xemacs

Hi,

We have got the cygwin version of xemacs installed on about 140 pc's all
running windows xp and they are all experiencing problems when launching a
shell from xemacs(M-x shell eg.). Basically xemacs crashes at this point. I
was told by someone (that knows more about xemacs than me) to put this is
the init.el file:

(setq exec-path (cons "d:\\cygwin\\bin" exec-path) (setenv "PATH" (concat
"d:\\cygwin\\bin;" (getenv "PATH"))) (setq process-coding-system-alist
'(("bash" . undecided-unix))) (setq shell-file-name "bash") (setenv "SHELL"
shell-file-name) (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name) 

I tried but it didn't work, unfortunately. Xemacs still crashes when trying
to load the shell.
Can anyone else offer any advice of what I could do to get this to work? My
knowledge of xemacs/emacs is very limited so apologies if I have not
provided the right/enough information. Currently we are using the latest
Cygwin and the latest xemacs net installations. I have been told (but not
able to confirm) that it used to work in an earlier distribution of
Cygwin/xemacs.

Thanks and regards
Karl