Kevin, I think there may be a problem with upgrading from 0.8 - things are working fine for me now that I removed everything and started over only installing SVN.
That might help explain the odd line numbers. Perhaps it was using the ealier version of either TurboGears or TurboKid. Still, it seems like the debug output indicated that it was going to the correct version... Dreamhost's fastcgi support leaves much to be desired - my site is down until it randomly decides to work again (generally a day or two), but I'll let you all know if I still encounter the nonetype error once it comes up again. -Mike

