[Ingrid]

Hey! You're still futzing around!

I wasn't able to copy the entire contents of the terminal output since tracking the progress of the download filled up the buffer, but here's the final output it gave me.

99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
99%,
100%,
Extracting...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 280, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 273, in main
  File "<string>", line 219, in extract_tarball
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1139, in open
    return func(name, "r", fileobj)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1204, in gzopen
    gzip.GzipFile(name, mode, compresslevel, fileobj))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1183, in taropen
    return cls(name, mode, fileobj)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1047, in __init__
    self.name = os.path.abspath(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 402, in abspath
    if not isabs(path):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 49, in isabs
    return s.startswith('/')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

This is definitely going in the right direction. Just a few more lines to fix and you've nailed that bug! But seriously, shouldn't you rather be reading that string theory instead of procrastinating with me? I mean, by all means, this is fun (in a sort of twisted, nerdy kinda way, ) but that sounds like some nasty theory you have to plough through.