Gnome System tools dont work

[devil]

Recently I have noticed that all my python files/libraries are present at 2 places /usr/lib/python2.3 and /usr/local/lib/python2.3
Now I would rather have all at one place and change all references/environment_variables.
The contents of the directories seemed 2 be the same (I checked all subfolders too).
So I added PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME as /usr/local to .bash_profile and deleted /usr/lib/python2.3 directory.

Now Starting any system python based program gives me this error :-
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/translate.py", line 150, in updateCachedCatPaths
encoding = locale.nl_langinfo (locale.CODESET)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'nl_langinfo'

How do I resolve this problem .. cant access any system tool ... HELP !

[variant]

did you check first to see if the duplicate files were infact only symlinks to the real libs? this seems to be more likly to me