I was told the other day that if I ran the easy-setup.py file on the PEAK website, it would basically download a broken version of distutils since the current version is automatically included with Python. This proved to be correct at my distutils commands quit functioning altogether when I did that. So I was wondering if there is some way that easy-install or the distutils package could be set up to detect if there's a version already installed? This would allow the program to stop if the local copy is newer than the one being installed...or it could just warn the user that they are trying to install an older version and give them the option to abort or continue. It would have saved me quite a few headaches if this had been the case. Thank you for your thoughts! Mike Driscoll