No commas in any file names... and this is one of those evil "it works for me" posts.
I downloaded the pielrf-2.0.3.zip file at the top of this thread.
Using WinXP, I Right-Clicked the "pielrf-2.0.3.zip" file and selected "Extract All..." This gives me a "Welcome to the Compressed (zipped) Folders Extraction Wizard." Clicking "Next>" a couple of times unzips me a "pielrf-2.0.3" folder.
If I go into the "pielrf-2.0.3" folder, there is a "pielrf-2.0.3" folder in there (no, that wasn't a typo!

). Opening THAT "pielrf-2.0.3" folder shows the correct contents, with the README,
pielrf and
striphtml commands, plus the setup.py, plus the "examples" and "packages" subdirectories, et cetera.
Could it be the dual "pielrf-2.0.3" folders were the problem?
EDIT: Just realized that I used the Mac to download, transferred to parallels and unzipped there. Maybe it's IE that's the problem? I'm off for a bit, but I'll try that later.
-Pie