Why can't maxima solve...



I don't know whether it will work with the lisp files, I experienced 
trouble but this is already some time ago and I can't remember why.

In any case you should load

load("/usr/labri/rubey/maxima/src/binary-gcl/set.lisp")
which is probably 
load("C:/MAXIMA/MAXIMA/share/maxima/5.9.0/src/set.lisp")
at your site

instead of

C:/MAXIMA/MAXIMA/share/maxima/5.9.0/share/misc/set.lisp

Martin