What's in your .emacs file?
diN0bot: i put third party .el files in .emacs.d and then set the load path in the first line of my .emacs file   (setq load-path (append load-path (list "/Users/diN0bot/.emacs.d")))

some useful .el's
   auto-save-list/            highlight-current-line.el
   auto_save_list/            psvn.el 
   backup-file-list/          pycomplete.el
   cpp-font-lock.el           python-mode.el
   django-mode.el             vc-.el
   doctest-mode.el            zenburn.elrebindings are useful, such ctrl-q for M-x goto-line:
   (global-set-key "\C-q" 'goto-line)I cribbed the following from someone else, but i find it most awesome:; ===== Put auto-save, backup files in one place ===;; Put autosave files (ie #foo#) in one place, not 
 ;; scattered all over the file system!
 (defvar autosave-dir
  (concat "/Users/diN0bot/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/"))(make-directory autosave-dir t)(defun auto-save-file-name-p (filename)
  (string-match "^#.*#$" (file-name-nondirectory filename)))(defun make-auto-save-file-name ()
  (concat autosave-dir
   (if buffer-file-name
      (concat "#" (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name) "#")
    (expand-file-name
     (concat "#%" (buffer-name) "#")))));; Put backup files (ie foo~) in one place too. (The backup-directory-alist
;; list contains regexp=>directory mappings; filenames matching a regexp are
;; backed up in the corresponding directory. Emacs will mkdir it if necessary.)
 (defvar backup-dir (concat "/Users/diN0bot/.emacs.d/backup-file-list/"))
 (setq backup-directory-alist (list (cons "." backup-dir)))