Ok, did all that and reinstalled, but no joy Still the same as before. I cocked it up when I came across the first Y/n option - amazing the stages that noobies need to know. Was I supposed to keep the readout from X-terminal? Sorry for taking so long, but Maemo won't let me log on on my phone now and I'm at the desktop - don't why that is as it always worked before? Maybe I'm just jinxed ...
sudo gainroot apt-get -f install
dpkg -l python2.5-qt4*