Idle/Python 2.3 installation problems - 2nd pass

[Dave In Redmond]

 Hopefully this is a simple nooB issue. Python seems to work but idle works
 only when I'm root. When I'm logged in as dave, I get the following error:
 
 [dave at Pippin Python-2.3]$ idle
 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
 Xlib: No protocol specified
 
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/bin/idle", line 4, in ?
     main()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1264, in main
     root = Tk(className="Idle")
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1564, in __init__
     self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
 _tkinter.TclError: couldn't connect to display ":0"
 [d
 
 Here are the steps I ran through:
 - downloaded the tarball onto a RH9/KDE platform, 
 - did a gunzip and tar, 
 - ran the ./configure with --enable-unicode=ucs4
 - did the make
 - switched to root and did the make install
 - after it failed I did a make clean and ran through the same steps with
the
 same results (d'oh!)
 
 Any suggestions?