Sometimes... honesty can be the best policy. If you dont let people know theres a problem, they wont know that its not the "norm" and move on...
Thanks for putting up with it all during the bad spells recently everyone!
And many thanks for all the kind comments.... least now i can hopeflly not do anymore all nighters rebuilding a server from scratch... and then go to work hehe
Regards to you all

Nath.