Hi All,

Thanks to everyone for your help, the snippets and bits of info have helped me immensely, the tip that clinched it was switching to dynamic mode, I'm still a bit of a newbie so I hadn't fully grapsed that to run in dynamic does not involve any or continual rebuilds to start off with .. obvious now I guess but at the time..

Anyway I managed to carefully pick through links.html and category.html and I think most of my problems were due to colspan tags which were creating additional formatting problems.

It took me a little while to clean it all up, I use FP2000 which I know I must change soon because it has a annoying habit of leaving or inserting bits of unwanted code which made things worse.

I was also trying to push things a bit too hard with desired layout to get my left and right columns in place which the main content (in the middle) was throwing quite badly if I got a long URL or category path.

I've managed to set up the links.html in a table and used a forced word wrap to 480 so it all sits quite comfortably with the extra long urls or category paths being forced to break.

I think I have got it ok now and have done a load of backups. Later this evening I can do a rebuild and switch back to static pages (shared server you see so it's less load)

At least i know all about dynamic now, if I had had to do a full rebuild each time (which i had been doing up until now) I don't think I could have got this one cracked, I think my head woud have fried.

Thanks again to everyone.

Cheers
KevM