Import 3ds

I’m brand new at blender - but it looks pretty good.

I’m trying to import a 3ds file for rendering purposes, but I just get error messages. I was able to import no trouble with 2.4, but 2.41 spits it out.

The final error message is “ValueError: object “Model” not found”

There are five lines before this that say:

File “<string>”, line [num], in [name]

where [num] and [name] in each line are:
646 my_callback
634 load_3ds
603 process_main_chunk
260 process_object_block
199 getUniqueName

Any help would be appreciated.

PS. blender will always give an ‘import site’ failed message on start up.

https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61979

Cheers - thanks for that. I figured there’d be a simple answer - but if you don’t know, you don’t know. :-?