mystery solved, I guess

[David Bobroff]

> From the error printout in your first email, it seems that this
>time it wasn't the pool-size but the "main memory size". I think
>it should help to set extra_mem_top. It's not uncommon that the
>Lilypond output breaks the default memory limits in LaTeX, so don't
>worry too much about why it worked when.

Ok.  Chalk it up to evil spirits, then.  I'll accept that.

You mentioned earlier:

>export pool_size=250000
>export extra_mem_top=1000000
>export extra_mem_bottom=1000000
>
>These settings could, for example, be done in your personal
>~/.profile file. Maybe we should include them by default in
>the lilypond-profile.sh and lilypond-login.sh files?

I put these setting in the lilypond-profile.sh, restarted cygwin and it
seemed to fix it.

Thanks!

-David