Moved the imports from the top of the file into the task function. This seemed to prevent some strange import errors that only occurred on the production server. I don't know if the problems were related to mod_wsgi or Python 2.5 or what.

"""urls for the IRC application"""
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

urlpatterns = patterns('irc.views',
   url(r'^$', 'view', name='irc-main'),
)