(I.e. after starting a login zsh, you'd have to explicitly source ~/.zlogin or whatever).
By what mechanism are you ensuring zsh is invoked as a login shell rather than a non-login shell?
Does $- include "i"? Does setopt show that interactive is on?
With Cygwin 1.5.13, zsh 4.2.4-1 and the simple shell invocation utility posted to this list on March 24 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (which sets argv[0] to "-zsh"), zsh recognizes that it is a login shell and correctly sources .zprofile.
You've probably already checked these things, but I'd be surprised if this behavior was due to file permissions.
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