Oh wait, it looks like a bug in the error handling/reporting in turn triggered by a browser gotcha. I finally remembered the Opera "have to strip the quotation marks off the pathname" thing and then it worked. Not a helpful error message / failure mode though ...
-- Glenn, relieved
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.

