GeoApt-Win7/vector files not working

[Koos]

Hi all,
I like GeoApt a lot. I came across it yesterday and started playing
with it.
(caveat- I have just about zero programming/python experience/
knowledge)

I'm running Windows 7, 64 bt, QGIS 1.5.0 built with osgeo4w, and that
is working well.

After reading some of the messages in this group, I edited line 42 in
GeoApt.py, replacing "as" with ","- this enables me to run the program
and it seems to be working. :)

Next problem is: Rasters work! (but not all). The About dialog has
this message:

**The GDAL Python bindings were not found. The list of supported
rasters has been set to a minimum.
How can I fix this?

Next problem:
Vector files do not work at all. (shp, csv, etc). The program returns
a message

"QGIS engine says ***.shp is not valid"

The osgeo4w shell prints out (clipped):

[quote].......<QgsProviderRegistry::getProvider> Library name
is...........Failed to load

.......<QgsVectorLayer::setDataProvider> unable to get data provider...
[/quote]

I looked around in some of the files/places the program is looking
through ( QgsProviderRegistry.h, etc) but can't figure it out. Any
ideas?

Thanks!
Koos