Apologies for essentially talking to myself out loud! I've switched back to pygresql. I think a lot of my problems were caused by not having installed postgresql-server-dev-8.2 which contains a lot of header files etc. I'm sure this was part of the problem with the psycopg modules aswell.
postgresql-server-dev can easily be installed of course by using: sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev I hope my ramblings have been of help to someone! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
