lillypond-book error

[Dennis O'Toole]

I have an install of lillypond 2.8.1 on Windows XP.  All my .ly files process
fine with lilypond.

When I try to use lilypond-book, it always gets the same error, regardless of
the input.  As an example, I put the template from Charpter 3 in a file called
ly.lyex and ran:

lilypond-book --psfonts template.lytex 2> errout.txt

which gave this output:

Reading ly.lytex...
Running latex...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1770, in ?
    main ()
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1724, in main
    chunks = do_file (file)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1619, in do_file
    set_default_options (source)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 767, in
set_default_options
    textwidth = get_latex_textwidth (source)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1424, in
get_latex_textwidth
    ly.system ('latex %s' % tmpfile, be_verbose=global_options.verbose)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\python\lilylib.py", line
95, in system
    stderr=stdout_setting)
  File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\lib\python2.4\subprocess.py", line 542, in
__init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\lib\python2.4\subprocess.py", line 899, in
_execute_child
    errpipe_read, errpipe_write = os.pipe()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pipe'

Can you advise?  Is this my config, an actual bug or a "stupid-user error"?

Thanks,
-Dennis-