a late update here, but it turns out that the python problem you mentioned earlier was related only to python version 2.6.5 - we had tested against earlier versions of 2.6 but with 2.6.5 python decided to finally remove support for something they had deprecated since 2.5
i've fixed the file in question to work with 2.6.5 and earlier versions of python - it can be obtained from
here:
put this file in your
$EDK_HOME/lib directory, overwriting the old version of the file
this fix will be included in our next release
sorry for the long delay