It wasn't, but after seeing your success I discovered what was wrong. My destination directory didn't exist, and for some reason windows wasn't automatically creating it to dump the files in.
I could fix this with a nested if statement, but it "feels" like windows should be creating this folder automatically if it doesn't exist. Oh well, thanks Steve! I wouldn't have performed the next step of manunally creating the directory if you hadn't posted that the script worked! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list