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Ok, if Python 2.3's setup.py provides the ImportError
diagnostics, then  agree that's most of what you need. 
You'll see the ld.so error so that should be a strong
indication that you're linking against a library in a
non-standard location.  I also seem to recall that Python
2.3 doesn't remove the .so, but instead moves it aside so
that's also enough because then you can use ldd and other
tools to figure out what it should have been linking to.

I'm not sure it's worth porting all this back to Python
2.2.2, so I'm closing this issue.