Dear Bill and John
Many thanks for your advice and I have now returned to the Dealer who has loaned me a spare appliacations CD.
That now brings me to the next point - these things always become sagas don't they - in that it would appear that in order to download the programmes/applications the CD needs to be connected to the internet which therefore I have done, but whatever site it is that the Install process makes contact with doesn't appear to be there anymore...or am I going up the creek again!!!!
Why do they have to make things so complicated...eh....
Roger M