[MERGE] fix blackbox failures when run from windows executable

[Mark Hammond]

I had a bit of a mini "win32 test sprint" while my girlfriend was safely
sidetracked by the Olympics ;)  I've updated the patch with some more
"simple" test fixes - but it does *not* include any of the os.listdir()
fixes from the other couple of threads which still need to be tackled
independently.

> This fixes 20 tests in the windows binary builds.    I'd also like to
> request this be merged into the 1.6 branch.

I'm still hoping these also land in 1.6.  FWIW, my current test suite
reports:

| FAILED (failures=51, errors=104, known_failure_count=14)
| 972 tests skipped

Which is approaching workable ;)  (but that report *does* include the
listdir fixes...)

Cheers,

Mark
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