sun_gui-D.py error using Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid

Dear all!

I am working on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid with Blender 2.48a and Python 2.5.2.
When I start sun_gui-D.py I get following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “sun_gui-D.py.005”, line 329, in <module>
File “sun_gui-D.py.005”, line 215, in fileopen
File “sun_gui-D.py.005”, line 232, in read
File “<string>”, line 1
‘Empty’
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

How can I fix that? Does anyone have an idea? Thanks!

whoehl