1.0.3 hangs after login

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when I don't login, I see 4 public albums.
when I login, pycasa hangs forever; waited for hours.
there are many albums on my picasa account.

$pycasa

(pycasa:2933): libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id '_Check for new version'
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pycasa/__init__.py:215: GtkWarning: Unable to show '': Operation not supported
  gtk.main()
Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method PycasaGUI.decorate of <pycasa.PycasaGUI object at 0xb72a15ec>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pycasa/__init__.py", line 298, in decorate
    res = f(self, *args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pycasa/__init__.py", line 350, in update_albums
    gobject.idle_add(append_item_to_store, self.albumStore, self._store_item(a))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pycasa/__init__.py", line 665, in _store_item
    path = item.get_thumbnail().path
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pycasa/backend.py", line 173, in get_thumbnail
    thumb = self.thumbnails[0]
IndexError: list index out of range