It seems I was doing MUCH more than I needed to do to have a look at XMonad in action. I went back and created a .xsession file with just one line:
xmonad I then disabled Nautilus (unchecked show desktop) and started xmonad as follows killall metacity; xmonad & Everything now seems to work fine. Impressive app! Thanks all, Michael
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