For building executables with py2exe, I found a free program called gui2exe helpful, as much for what it taught me about py2exe options as for what it does, itself. Here is the link to the home page of this project.
gui2exe - A wxPython-based GUI which unifies all the executable-builders for Python
http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/ Jamal __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind