UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

I don't know for sure what I did, but this morning after making a few changes with my title bar and prompt, as soon as I launch my Cygwin RXVT terminal outside of X-Windows, or my urxvt terminal Inside it, I get the following error:

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bash: $'\357\273\277#': command not found

I've seen it on one line, two lines and three. I thought at first it was a UTF-8 with BOM issue, but it doesn't appear to be so. This last launch brought it up after my motd (which I puzzled out has to be "cat"-ed in since there was no other way I could find to show it that worked) and my Quote Of The Day, for which I use the "toy" application fortune to read in from a fortune-cookie file of my own making. To help you visualize this, here's the rest of my startup messages:

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XWindow Server RESURGAM
BASH cygwin in Windows XP SP3
(Amazing, 'ent it?) 
Quote of the day:
Feargail says 'hi.'

I thought this octal-string error may also have been caused by a faulty RXVT, so I ran the setup and re-installed it. Likewise BASH. Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking it may be a corrupt config file that Cygwin's bash is having trouble reading in (parsing) correctly. I've already checked the line endings on everything that rates as a config file and vaguely resembles a bash shell script, and I was able to see and fix a few naughty characters in .bash_profile and .xinitrc. If it is a corrupt startup config file, the question is: which one?

How would I go about finding out which of the files is either bad or refuses to be corrected via editing?

BZT