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.

{% load url from future %}
{% load markup %}
{% load smiley_tags %}
{% load bio_tags %}
{% avatar user 0 "left" %}{% profile_link user.username %}:<br />{{ msg|safe }}