Installing Python 2.5.2 on Win 7

[W. eWatson]

I would like to install 2.5.2 on Win 7 for several reasons. I'm using my 
former XP laptop, which I recently upgraded to Win7. In the XP form, I 
had at one time installed 2.5.2, PIL, numpy, matplotlib, etc. on it to 
drive a camera via a Python app. The camera is still around, and I use 
it on my PC XP desktop with this software, for which the python app will 
never be updated.

However, I acquired a camera like the one I use and we set it up at a 
friend's house on his XP laptop. We installed this software on it, but 
for some reason, probably because of the camera interface via ethernet, 
we can get the app up, but not the camera.

To solve this problem I thought I would install the software on my 
laptop Win7 PC. When I tried PIL.1.1.6 I got several unexpected messages 
that seem to indicate things were not going well. I have stopped to find 
out if it is really possible to install this suite of software on Win7. 
Is it possible? If not, will uninstalling Python also remove PIL?