try-ark problem: reveal arkbase

OK, I commented out a couple of "exit 1" lines in try-ark because my
paths are supposed to be OK, and the very next thing I get is:

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+ ./arkcmd package reveal --hosts=freeb --verbose --use-deps=max arkbase
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./arkcmd", line 41, in ?
    things_mgr.doToolSubcommand()
  File "./ark/thing.py", line 153, in doToolSubcommand
    victims       = self.unpackSpecs(cmdline_info.nonOptions())
  File "./ark/thing.py", line 86, in unpackSpecs
    thing = self.lookup(thing_name,team_id)
  File "./ark/thing.py", line 47, in lookup
    team_id = ark.team.ACTING_TEAM().id
  File "./ark/team.py", line 26, in ACTING_TEAM
    _ActingTeam.instance = ArkTeam(acting_team_id)
  File "./ark/team.py", line 84, in __init__
    (self._is_prototype, self._xmlf) = xml_file.read(explicit_filename="%s/team.xml" % (ark.profile.REPOSITORY[team_id]))
  File "./ark/xmlfile.py", line 107, in read
    root_elem.normalize()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.6/site-packages/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 74, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, key
AttributeError: normalize
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