LyXCan't insert BibTeX Bibliography; TeXFiles.py fails.

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confused1
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Can't insert BibTeX Bibliography; TeXFiles.py fails.

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Hello,

I'm running LyX 1.6.8 on Windows 7 and I can't seem to insert my BibTeX bibliography into my LyX document. 'Insert > List / TOC > BibTeX Bibliography...' causes an error window to open that says "The script '<path to LyX>/LyX/bin/../Resources/scripts/TeXFiles.py' failed". When I click "OK" the error window opens again a few more times before an empty 'LyX: BibTeX Bibliography' window opens up.

I'm also using JabRef (2.6) to push BibTeX entries to LyX which seems to work except I get a [?] in the resulting .pdf wherever I have a citation. My understanding is that I need to insert a BibTeX bibliography in the LyX document to fix this and actually have the bibliography included in the .pdf, is this correct?

Thanks!

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