No matter what I do, django-admin.py is not found, even though it's in my path
The python interpreter does not look everywhere on your path to find the script. It does look everywhere for imports, but not for scripts.
Try typing django-admin.py, just django-admin.py and not python django-admin.py, and it should work. Windows should find it on the path, then execute it as a python script.
OK,
If Windows doesn't run Python scripts (i.e. you have set your editor as the default python app), try: python -m django-admin or maybe python -m django-admin.py. The -m argument uses module mode, which checks the path.
I have added C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\bin to my path, I have started a new cmd session in Windows 7, but when I try to do 'python django-admin.py ...' it says there is no file django-admin.py.  When I type path, there is the full path to ...\django\bin. This is driving me nuts. Clearly it's there, but it's not working. Any suggestions?