In case anyone cares, rxvt does the right thing, so you might consider switching like I did.
How did you do this? I can't reproduce your results. I'm running rxvt 2.7.9, the latest Cygwin release.
The following command still only gives me a window called "bash".
# rxvt -e bash -i -c "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Moreover, under rootless, xterm does give me the correct window title, but rxvt doesn't.
-JT
