Thanks andy,
My Assistant finally logged a change to the (topics you started) area, but the My Controls is just

incognito -it has chosen to disguise itself as a broken panel - while it still manages to actually send PMs.....hmm - yes I've cleared my cache etc.
Hey man - you guys have way better stuff to worry about than my control panel - I'll try notto complain about it anymore - thanks for checking it out though.