Baffled continuous newbie install question

Dear Patient Robin,

Got it. Thank you very much indeed.

(At the end I brute-forced, copying the wx and wxPython folders from
  /Users/cohar/Documents/Python/wxPython-src-2.5.4.1/wxPython
into
  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages
which is probably not the way to do it, but it works.)

You can bet I made a textfile of all the steps so the next time there's an upgrade . . .

Thanks again.

Charles Hartman