Gentlemen, do $ find /usr/local/|grep emacs|xargs ls -ld drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 4096 2003-07-16 14:49 /usr/local/share/emacs drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 2003-07-16 14:49 /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3 drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 2003-07-16 14:49 /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/site-lisp drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 2002-05-28 21:33 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
This tells me that only a month ago, whilst apt-getting emacs related packages, one of them must have been mucking in /usr/local?