.3ds importer broken?

Hi,
I’m trying to import a .3ds file, but everytime I try, I get the error message, telling me to check the console- the console says,

"Traceback<most recent call last>:
   File "<string>", line 127, in <module>
ImportError: No model named struct

I’m running windows media centre edition, blender 2.44.

Does anyone know what is wrong, and how I can fix this?

EDIT: Ok, I downloaded 2.43, and it works with that. Seems the .3ds importer is broken in 2.44.

I had same problem. You must have installed latest python to run it then it will work