Python COM Makepy Excel 9.0 error

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Has anyone seen this?  When I run the COM Makepy utility and choose
Microsoft Excel 9.0 Object Library (1.3), I get an application error
message:

PythonWin: Pythonwin.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x77fcc87" referenced memory at "0x0307a705".  The
memory could not be "read".

I do not get this error when I choose the Microsoft Office 9.0 Object
Library (2.1).

I have tried this from one other computer and got a similar error
message.  I looked all over the 'net for enlightenment and have so far
been unsuccessful.  Does anyone have an idea what can be going on and
how to get around it?

I am using Python 2.4 under Windows 2000SP4.  I have also installed
pywin32 (build 203 for Python 2.4) and py2exe-0.5.4 for Python 2.4.

Python 2.3 and the COM Makepy utility (Python 2.3 version) seems to run
okay.

I am writing a rather complicated set of instructions to manipulate a
series of Excel 2000 spreadsheets and have already added quite a few of
the features from Python 2.4, so I hope I do not have to revert back to
Python 2.3.  Any suggestions?

Thank you, in advance,
Christopher D. Morgan, P.E., Ph.D.