[CentOS] wicd questions

Hello 

 I am trying to get wicd to work on Cent 5.5 it installs fine but when i
run wicd-curses i get this error 

 wicd-curses 
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 505
    class appGUI():
                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


 my versions of wicd and python-urwid are 

 wicd-1.7.0-3.el5
 python-urwid-0.9.8.4-3.el5


 Has anyone been able to get wicd working ? Or does anyone know how to
fix the python syntax error ? I would like to be able to control my
wireless networks via command line. 

 btw this is not a centos base package so flame away please & thanks.

 LostSon

CentOS - It's not just for servers ya know...