Thanks for the help guys, it works! I used the ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0) from http://peeved.org/blog/2007/11/20/ immedialtey after import, then did the initialize trace_level=2 and did the simple_bind_s. I was able to search and get the results. That trace_level thing is nice, i'm sure i will be debugging this more as i move forward :)
Not sure if this is an AD thing or just something i needed to do with our particular server/config. Thanks again! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list