I've updated the package as per instructions from this thread (fixed the paths, dropped the unnecessary libs). Hopefully I got it right this time -- I've found a new respect for package maintainers of all my favorite distros, this stuff requires more concentration and care than actually programming the contents! ;)
As a side note, I occasionally have to run the program (solve-field.exe) twice, as on the first attempt it dies complaining of a slowly loading DLL (_functools). Is this normal? I'm doing this in a Win7 virtual machine... wget \ http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/astrometry.net-0.38-1.tar.bz2 \ http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/astrometry.net-0.38-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/setup.hint -- jussi