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I just reverted TALPrefs.py to the way it was, and changed 
my PATH and PYTHONPATH to use python2.2 again, to try 
and get the specific error message.  The problem is no longer 
occurring.  I can only guess that I didn't have Python 2.2 
configured correctly before, for the new account that I had 
created to initialize and run the tracker.  Sorry for the trouble; 
this incident can be closed.