Comment 10 for bug 113298

ok, and quite clearly my path has all the /usr/local stuff in it first:
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simplejson-1.4-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Amara-1.1.9-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/flup-0.5-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scgi-1.12-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Paste-1.0-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ZSI-2.0.dev_r1293-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dap-2.2.5.1-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/httplib2-0.2.0-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Cheetah-2.0rc7-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dap.plugins.grads-0.1.1-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/arrayterator-0.2.5-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PasteDeploy-1.0-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PasteScript-1.0-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dap.plugins.netcdf-0.3.2-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pupynere-0.2.1-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wsgistate-0.4-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.3-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/WSGIUtils-0.7-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c5-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kid-0.9.5-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.0.0a5-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Genshi-0.4-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wsgilog-0.1-py2.5.egg', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/var/lib/python-support/python2.5']

So that's where the problem lies. Now the question is why ...