Having asked the UWA tech contacts list and got the suggestion of "delete old copy re-install new copy put in new codes I though some one here would know a more elegant answer.

SPSS requires renewals each year and on the PC version there is an application that you run that applies the new codes. However the mac version doesn't seem to have this application. I've also looked through the online and web help/support pages for spss and googled it but no joy. Is unistall/reinstall the only option. - there doesn't seem to be a preference file I can trash to null out the old codes
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