Never mind! I inadvertently saved a snippet of code under the name trisurf.m in the current directory. So when Matlab executed the script, of course, MY trisurf.m function took precedence ove the built-in, "real" trisurf.m function. Egg on my face... I'll learn to better read error messages in the future... Needless to say, as soon as I renamed my code snippet, the script worked flawlessly, as it pulled the "original" trisurf code...
Boy! Let that be a lesson...