I inserted the 'import pdb...' suggestions and set the .pth back to the first thing I'd tried: C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\my\scripts\py\mydir and lo and behold - it works!!
Then I took out the "import pdb ...' and ... it still works!! What did you do to my system to get it to work? :) Seriously though: thank you very much. I guess there must have been a typo in my original attempts or something like that. My team of trigger-happy lawyers are looking at me and licking their lips. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list