Help with Cygwin Xemacs c-x c-f

[marksong]

I am a newbie to Cygwin, and just installed Cygwin with Xemacs. The first problem I encountered is this find-file. In solaris, when I do c-x c-f it will show the files in the current directory; in my Cygwin Xemacs, however it always shows the root directory (where I start off the xemacs) regardless where the current directory is.
Any idea on how I should fix this problem?
thanks in advance

Mark