Naaa...I sorted it with help from the DevShed PHP forums but when i got back here I could no longer edit/delete the message, so posted something to tell people not to worry. Fair enough I think. Saves your grey matter the effort!
You can still check out the site to see what I've been up to though and see if it would be useful. I don't particularly mind going off at a tangent to w3t if necessary, but if others are going to find it useful I would put in the effort to try to make sure the hacks are integrated properly with the standard code.
