"ImportError: The _imaging C module is not installed."

Hi, if you could help that'd be great. I know absolutely nothing about
python; I'm trying to run tutorials but they won't work! I think I installed
it wrong.

For the PIL specific problem if that's all that matters, please scroll down.

*Background*:

I'm trying to run a game tutorial I downloaded and keep getting

pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file

I tried putting

export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes

in terminal, but it didn't help.

I'm on Snow Leopard. I've googled the crap out of this. As far as I can
tell, the problem is usually that the SDL libraries aren't there. But... in
my /Library/Frameworks, I totally have SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, and
SDL.framework.


*I decided to use PIL as a temporary workaround. *
To my code, I added...

def tobmp(img):
    from PIL import Image
    originalimage = Image.open(img)

    convertedimage = originalimage.convert('RGB')
    return convertedimage


Now I get the error, "ImportError: The _imaging C module is not installed."

So I tried like the FAQ said -

$ python -v
...
>>> import Image

But I got scary things like

>>> import Image
# /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/FixTk.pyc
has bad mtime

And

import _imaging

 dlopen("/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.so", 2);
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.so,
2):      Symbol not found: _jpeg_resync_to_restart

   Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.so
   Expected in: flat namespace
 in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.so



:( If you have any ideas, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!

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