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I've also put in a try/except as suggested. This is done in 
both the CVS HEAD and maint-0-6 branch. 
 
I'm not really that good on Windows stuff - are there likely to 
be any ramifications to your change in the batch file? (Apart 
from stderr / stdout being closed, and breaking the logging, 
that is ;)