Ironically I just received personal mail:

"""I have downloaded pywin32_212 [2.6] three times today. the download
completes successfully. but on running the pywin installer i repeatedly
get an error."""

Attached is a screen-shot of the error dialog
"pywin32-212-win32-py2.6.exe...has failed to start because the
application configuration is incorrect..."""

My apologies for not being more on top of this, but I couldn't find the
answer in the developer FAQ.  This question applies to issue 4566 and
will partially apply to issue 5076.  The patches are against the trunk -
after checking in, what action should I take to ensure it is merged to
2.6 and 3.x?  I'm happy to manually merge and checkin to those branches
if appropriate; if so, should I check it into branches/release30-maint
as well as branches/py3k?

Thanks