Thanks for your help Deepcut - your a star. Wish I was more knowledgably about these computer thingies ... its all passing me by a bit. Anyway, puts our ground problems into a bit of perspective.
we've been waiting 20 years for some basic improvements into our infrastructure, I'd say we're a lot worse off with the useless timewasters we've had to suffer!
As bad as it is for afcw, they will sort their sh*t long before Thomas cashes in his good fortune and gets gone.