filetype unknown on startup

Greetings,

I am running Vim version 7.3.154 on Ubuntu Oneiric. I'm a newbie, and I
just set up a .vimrc file with the following commands:

set nocompatible
set hlsearch
set incsearch
set number
set showmode
set syntax=ON
color elflord

All of the features I intended to set work like a charm, the problem is that
now every time I open a file in VIM, i get the following error:

filetype unknown
Press ENTER or type command to continue

It does this with all files I've tried to open, (.cpp, .c++, .txt and the
.vimrc itself) It appears to me that the filetype.vim file should allow for
all these to be detected, but I don't know for sure what I am reading.
Funny thing is, the syntax highlighting still works even though the filetype
is supposedly unknown.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

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