@Slocan

again, thanks, but again (alas) it chokes on the same error. could it be that i have exotic py packages installed due to other stuff i've gotten from extras-devel? sorry if it sounds like a stupid question but i'm a bit of a *nix noob lol.

how do i flush all python packages? i remember before re-flashing my phone to PR1.1 i manually installed via dpkg pyoptify 0.4 (i think) and since that sends things to the 2G partition which isn't touched by reflashing, could that be resulting in problems?

would running apt-get upgrade help? and how do i determine if i have broken dependencies on my system?

tia