Hiya Mark, whatever you did, it worked
The I.P. address that was being reported in the join.txt file was very close to the I.P. of my ISP's DHCP Server, not my real I.P. address. I know that the ISP's sometimes use proxy IP's once their clients are on-line, I asked them if they recognised the IP address that was being shown. Bearing in mind it's in a range of their own IP addresses, they denied all knowledge of it, bunch of cowboys ! lol I'm using NTL, or as it's known in in England, NTHell. Anyway, thanks a lot for sorting that out, I owe you one ... bigtime