Thanks Chazz, i did manage to sort the problem out, and as a result it raised a few observations.
I reinstalled using another installation disk, and started loading the various builds sequentially, 2018, 2045...and so on. What was interesting was that 2045 resulted in a launch problem, some Library problem. An obviously after that 2172 did not repair the damage. Once 2219 was loaded it was fine. The long and short of it we installed from scratch gain and only loaded build 2219. Now I'm smiling again and everything is fine. Bring on Universal AC10.