Reinstalling Python Problem (Newbie)

[beno]

It's been years since I've done this. I had a programmer working for me 
who disappeared one day, and now I'm taking over his responsibilities. I 
need to re-configure Apache for mod_python which means I have to rebuild 
python. I'm working with the latest distro. I'm heavily dependent on 
zope, so all this has to work together. Platform is FreeBSD 5.? I have 
the following questions:

What is meant by pointing to this folder thus:
./configure --prefix=/usr/python

When I run make test I get these errors:

2 tests failed:
    test_mimetools test_urllib2
48 tests skipped:
    test_aepack test_al test_applesingle test_asynchat test_bsddb
    test_bsddb3 test_cd test_cl test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk
    test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw test_curses
    test_doctest test_fork1 test_gdbm test_gl test_imgfile test_imp
    test_linuxaudiodev test_logging test_macfs test_macostools
    test_nis test_normalization test_ossaudiodev test_pep277
    test_plistlib test_queue test_scriptpackages test_socket
    test_socket_ssl test_socketserver test_sunaudiodev test_tcl
    test_thread test_threaded_import test_threadedtempfile
    test_threading test_threading_local test_threadsignals
    test_timeout test_unicode_file test_urllib2net test_urllibnet
    test_winreg test_winsound
13 skips unexpected on freebsd5:
    test_threadedtempfile test_imp test_threaded_import test_fork1
    test_threading test_threadsignals test_socket test_thread
    test_queue test_asynchat test_doctest test_threading_local
    test_logging
*** Error code 1

I've googled this with no luck. Please advise what to do or at least how 
to start
TIA,
beno