Version Check Failed (gDesklets-0.35.1)

[Esben Stien <b0ef esben-stien name>]

Trying to get gDesklets up and running. 

Running gdesklets yields: 
Starting gdesklets-daemon...
Connecting to daemon [ ###         ]You need a recent version of PyGTK to run this program.
Cannot establish connection to daemon: timeout!
The log file might help you solving the problem.

I already have pygtk-2.4.1 and -2.6.2. 

Running gdesklets check yields: 
 - xml.parsers.expat ... found
Version check failed.
libexpat version 1.95.7 is broken. Please upgrade!

I already had expat-1.95.8, but I tried upgrading to expat-2005-01-28
which gave the same thing.

Any pointers on how to proceed?

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