Oh wait, just realised it was loading the (x86) tools. Doing a quick search I noticed that I didn't have the x64 components installed, so loading up the MSVC08 setup again and installing it, then: copying vcvarsamd64.bat to vcvarsall.bat and adding its directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\amd64\) to PATH....
AND IT WORKS! =D -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
