IDLE won't launch, and other frustrations

[Michael A. Covington]

On the trail of figuring out why IDLE won't launch, look at this:

Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
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>>> import Tkinter
>>> Tkinter._test()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\PYTHON23\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 3640, in _test
    root = Tk()
  File "C:\PYTHON23\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1564, in __init__
    self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
_tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
directories:
    {C:\WN16\LIB\TCL7.6} {C:\WN16\LIB\TCL7.6} C:/WN16/LIB/tcl8.4
C:/Python23/lib/tcl8.4 C:/lib/tcl8.4 C:/library
This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
>>>


Here \WN16 is where *another* TCL/TK application *used* to reside.  And the
TCL stuff definitely *does* exist under C:\Python23\tcl\tcl8.4 (not
lib\tcl8.4).

By default does Python 2.3.3 install itself incorrectly???!!