[john ready]

Thanks for that. How odd that there's no way of clearing the US firmware - eg powering down for several hours. I had assumed that using the "restore to factory default" option in the setup page would do just that - ie clear everything back to condition the unit was in before it left the factory ....How odd.

The issue of the file being corrupted is a good point. These things can and do happen. I'll do another download; and I'll try to access the router via IE -and see what happens.

Thanks

Mike