update: I got it working and I think that there is a hardcoded path somewhere in the toolbox code, that is throwing cherrypy into a loop if you run tg-admin outside the root of the SVN checkout.
Just in case someone is interested
I'm running windows XP SP2, mysql, and i got apache but it's off
my next problem: Widgets browser is failing in kid with
for ev, item in stream:
File "<string>", line 33, in _pull
AttributeError: 'SelectField' object has no attribute 'options'

