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Hi all,
please go easy, n00bs first post - have searched but cant find anything to help. Im thinking theres something quite wrong as the TED pluggin fails to load, as does others i have added from Nibor's repo (4oD and demand 5). tested others, cartoon network etc and all fail, the only thing working is iplayer which i manually installed.

395648 NOTICE: Starting XBMC, Platform: Windows 7, 64-bit (WoW) build 7600. Built on Mar 8 2011 (Git:e9e9099, compiler 1500)
20:51:59 T:2400 M:1290395648 NOTICE: AMD Turion™ II Neo N40L Dual-Core Processor
20:51:59 T:2400 M:1290395648 NOTICE: Desktop Resolution: 1920x1080 32Bit at 60Hz
20:51:59 T:2400 M:1290395648 NOTICE: Running with restricted rights

20:52:08 T:3540 M:1246789632 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
20:52:08 T:3540 M:1246785536 NOTICE: [PLUGIN] 'TED Talks: version 2.2.2' initialized!
20:52:10 T:1288 M:1243119616 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
20:52:10 T:1288 M:1243115520 NOTICE: [PLUGIN] 'TED Talks: version 2.2.2' initialized!
20:52:11 T:1288 M:1241456640 NOTICE: [TED Talks] resources.lib.util attempting to open http://www.ted.com/speakers/atoz/page/9999
20:52:11 T:1288 M:1241333760 NOTICE: [TED Talks] resources.lib.util error:
404
Not Found
http://www.ted.com/speakers/atoz/page/9999
20:52:11 T:1288 M:1241329664 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.TypeError
20:52:11 T:1288 M:1241329664 ERROR: Error Contents: expected string or buffer
20:52:11 T:1288 M:1241223168 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.ted.talks\default.py", line 27, in ?
ted_talks.Main()
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.ted.talks\resources\lib\ted_talks.py", line 181, in __init__
self.checkMode()
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.ted.talks\resources\lib\ted_talks.py", line 242, in checkMode
UI().speakers()
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.ted.talks\resources\lib\ted_talks.py", line 126, in speakers
speakers = TedTalks.Speakers(self.main.args.url)
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.ted.talks\resources\lib\ted_talks_scraper.py", line 136, in __init__
self.navItems = TedTalks().getNavItems(self.html)
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.ted.talks\resources\lib\ted_talks_scraper.py", line 28, in getNavItems
for liTag in BeautifulSoup(html, parseOnlyThese = paginationContainer).findAll('li'):
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.beautifulsoup\lib\BeautifulSoup.py", line 1517, in __init__
BeautifulStoneSoup.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.beautifulsoup\lib\BeautifulSoup.py", line 1142, in __init__
self._feed(isHTML=isHTML)
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.beautifulsoup\lib\BeautifulSoup.py", line 1166, in _feed
smartQuotesTo=self.smartQuotesTo, isHTML=isHTML)
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.beautifulsoup\lib\BeautifulSoup.py", line 1767, in __init__
self.markup, documentEncoding, sniffedEncoding = \
File "C:\Users\joey\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.beautifulsoup\lib\BeautifulSoup.py", line 1912, in _detectEncoding
xml_encoding_match = re.compile(
TypeError: expected string or buffer
20:52:11 T:2400 M:1241210880 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.ted.talks/?url=None&mode=speakers&name=Speakers&icon=None
20:52:11 T:2400 M:1241210880 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.ted.talks/?url=None&mode=speakers&name=Speakers&icon=None) failed

i can only figure there is something common stopping most of my addons working.

sorry if this is in the wrong forum

Thanks

Joe