Here's the thing..... when you had a bright idea and feel that you can sort out something you know nothing about without waiting for help...... DON'T !!
I managed to loose half the site...... and have spent the last hour rebuilding it from scratch..... the only saving grace is that none of the products had been lost so its a case of redoing the lost categories with all their products.... then reorganizing it all again..... nightmare!
So...... if anyone has been wondering why it looked so confused and didn't do what is used to "I really do apologise"!