Python on Leopard issues

[Chris]

Are others having fundamental issues on OSX 10.5 with python 2.5.1? I was 
excited that Python 2.5 was included, but this excitement was very short 
lived. Almost nothing works. Upon startup I get this message:

'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

and sure enough, all of the built-in packages are non-existent. I'm not sure 
why Apple bothered including an improperly-configured version. Does
 anyone have an easy fix for this, or should I go to ActiveState and install a 
version that works?

Thanks.