Thanks to all who offered assistance with this problem.
A couple of days back I decided to attack from a different direction. After all the "Change this", "Tweak that", "Edit such-and-such file" etc etc I figured that things were starting to get really messy. So the answer should be - Start again from a clean slate!!
I re-installed the OpSys and ran through all my set-up steps again. Now everything "seems" to be working fine again!! I guess some minor hiccup in the original installation of the new OpSys triggered the whole thing.
Will advise If I come across any "funnies"!! Thanks again to all who helped out - greatly appreciated!! IanW Pretoria RSA -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted