PIL problem: IOError: cannot identify image file

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Hi,

I installed the newest available PIL (1.1.5 for Python 2.4) from their
site, but cannot seem to open any files. The following

from PIL import Image

i = Image.open(file('c:\\image2.png'))

results in

  File "C:\Program Files\Python24\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line
1745, in open
    raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
IOError: cannot identify image file

for any graphics file I've tried. Anyone know what's wrong?