What's in your .emacs file?
bmac: my emacs.d still needs a few tweaks but I'm convinced it always will.most useful parts:
replacing fundamental mode with text-mode as the default mode when a new buffer is open.(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)turn auto fill (automatic line wraping) and flyspell (spellchecking) on by default(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell)also I find yasnippet http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/ wonderful for coding html mockups and django templates.my github repo if anyone cares to take a peek: 
http://github.com/bmac/emacs