All done went to laptop(installed Maverick Meerkat) and all went fine. My favourite is that flasher did not install properly. I like the idea of simplifying this - the new user and there wil always be some tends to assume that things are always his/her fault (with me a fair proportion of the time that will be true of course). I am well impressed with Maemo/Linux and the support community is very strong (esp compared to Windows).
Thanks to all.