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Thanks for the report.  I'll try to reproduce the problem myself.
What is supposed to happen is if IDLE has a problem 
retreiving the theme, it's supposed to load the default theme
from config-highlight.def and if that fails it's supposed to
use a fallback theme written into the code itself.  Clearly
all this complexity isn't working too well, and the error
messages aren't particularly helpful.