Alright, lesson #1: To avoid looking like an idiot, don't try to belt out a mailing list question in 10 minutes before work. array.. not list... duh.
So if I change base64.decodestring(self.session_data) to base64.decodestring(self.session_data.tostring()) in django.models.core.Session::get_decoded(), line 83\ everything seems to work fine... but why was/is this broken in the first place?

