Finally deleted 2.2 and loaded 2.5 (see below), using
the msi, on my XP partition. Having intermittent system
crashes. Assumed a corrupt download, so deleted and did
another download/install. Same problems.

The associated DLLs when XP says that it must shut down
the idle shell are not consistent.

So is there something not stable about ver 2.5 on XP ?

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC
v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

Thanks very much from my cat and dog.