pygtk version mixup driving me nuts to say the least!!

[Mr Mike <mike@ejecta.net>]

I'm tired of 'f'ing around with this STUPID pkgconfig carp.  
YUP, I'm upset...  Been going round and round with this all damn day.
The following error is what I get when I run hal-device-manager..

** ERROR **: PyGTK (2, 6, 0) required, but (2, 4, 1) found.
aborting...
Aborted

But..  cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pygtk-2.0.pc says..
<snip>
Name: PyGTK
Description: Python bindings for GTK+ and related libraries
Requires: pygobject-2.0
Version: 2.6.1
Cflags: -I${pygtkincludedir} 
<snip>

I've purged the pkgs (python-gtk*) and reinstalled about 4 times now..
also run ldconfig as root after the install just to make sure it's links are set..

Contents of ld.so.config ...

  /usr/X11R6/lib
  /usr/lib
  /usr/local/lib
  /opt/lib

Sorry, but I don't have time for this...  What the 'f' is going on?

Any help, PLS!! :-(

mike..
houston, tx