Thanks Weavus for your comments and answers - especially about the stand. It's like the RS-MMC thing - obvious once you know, not always so obvious without a diagram or mention of it in the manual at the end of a 14 hours work day...

How do I change the timeouts? The problems I have had with connections are mainly when navigating pages etc so I did "have" a connection to begin with. Other times for instance clicking on the "refresh" for the news headings it has taken a number of failed connection attempts before succeeding. My wireless strength is maximum green bars and sitting right next to the router so I shouldn't be having that much of a problem I think.

As I said I did get the bookmarks working after the "reboot" - but it had several occasions where the device would be fairly unresponsive to taps or key clicks (with minimal apps open or going on in the background so not a memory capacity issue). It's not the end of the world, and the boot time is fairly quick when I have to resort to that but it's obviously not something I hope to always be doing...

Thanks again for your response, always interested to hear if others find similar issues or if I'm just "unlucky"...