LinuxQuestions.org - cant seem to get mod-python working

Hey there, i have a python site that i am trying to move to a different server.
I think i have the permissions ok, i have libapache-mod-python installed, but it does not seem to work. php scripts seem to run ok, but not my .py scripts.
below is the virtual host config from /etc/apache/http.conf
i am running debian 3.1 (sarge) with apache 1.3

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName mysite.com

ServerAlias *.mysite.com

DocumentRoot /var/mysite/web_root/

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/mysite/web_root/

</VirtualHost>

i have checked and the scrpts are executable.

thanks for any help here.