Admin staticfiles stubbornly hiding behind 404s

I confess, I'm lost! I've just tried starting my first new site since upgrading to Django 1.3 and the new staticfiles settings seem to be taunting me. I've tried a number of variations but every setting I have returns a 404 for the admin interface css. Here's what I have just now: MEDIA_URL = '

Admin returning the wrong string

I have a slightly strange occurrence happening which makes no real sense to me so I thought I'd see if anyone had any helpful hints... My app stores people's first and last names, however for privacy reason unless a user is logged in when browsing the website they will only see "Firstname Initial"