ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

[Fred]

This is the result of print sys.path:

>>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages']

MySQLdb lives here but is not in the path:
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb

Everything is running on the same machine here in my house, everything
was installed and is launched as root.

Thanks.
Fred