clisp oddities



I just downloaded 5.9.0rc3 and I had 
clisp-2.28 already installed.  Everything 
compliled cleanly and installed fine. 
However, when I run "maxima", I get this 
terrible mess:

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  i i i i i i i       ooooo    o        ooooooo   ooooo   ooooo
  I I I I I I I      8     8   8           8     8     o  8    8
  I  \ `+' /  I      8         8           8     8        8    8
   \  `-+-'  /       8         8           8      ooooo   8oooo
    `-__|__-'        8         8           8           8  8
        |            8     o   8           8     o     8  8
  ------+------       ooooo    8oooooo  ooo8ooo   ooooo   8

Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Michael Stoll 1992, 1993
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Marcus Daniels 1994-1997
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Pierpaolo Bernardi, Sam Steingold 1998
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Sam Steingold 1999-2002


*** - no file name given: #P"/usr/home/stannous/maxima-5.9.0rc3/"
1. Break [1]> 
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So I tried running it the way I would have thought 
it should be run and it works fine:
like so:

   /usr/local/bin/clisp -M /usr/local/lib/maxima/5.9.0rc3/binary-clisp/maxima.mem

What did I do wrong in the install?

Thanks,
Sam Tannous