glVertexPointer Troubles

I decided to optimize the drawing first by using glVertexPointer and glDrawElements, however this has turned out to be more trouble than I expected.  It seems that no matter the way I play with the functions I cannot get them to work correctly.

I started off by using the C-like versions of the functions, but have since moved on to trying to get the pythonic versions to work.  Neither will draw anything to the screen.

I'll keep chipping away at it, but it is really annoying, and there are no good references on how this is meant to work in python.

On the plus side, it appears to have improved render times by at least 500%, of course - nothing is showing on the screen, so that could be misleading.

Cheers,

Naltai