"hardware information" crashes on startup every time (feisty herd5)

[edsesq]

Similar to some other reports, System>Preferences>Hardware Information crashes immediately when I attempt to start it.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 10 23:52:41 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/hal-device-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: hal-device-manager 0.5.8.1-4ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hal-device-manager
ProcCwd: /home/esofen
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/hal-device-manager']
SourcePackage: hal
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 13, in <module>
     import Const
 ImportError: No module named Const
Uname: Linux esofen-laptop 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux