Ok cleaned up the scene - renamed and grouped everything - Got rid of anything not needed - resized the model and restarted the hair from scratch.

Before the resize the head worked out to be 4cm (whoops) but rescaled now I have her at about 1 meter 80 cm. Found a site that states she is 5 foot 7" which if I add her heals would be about right.

This is the images straight of the bat - Looking good and not too far of my early results. Need to fixes in some areas like the parting and the missing bits towards the rear of the head. My biggest headache I think is the bottom of the hair..... So here`s to tweaking.

Render time has gone up to 4 min a image (2k x 2k) but I have upgraded the settings quite a bit.