cheers. I have kept all my FG and MR settings the same and simply clicked batch render. It appears to be doing something (by the noise my computers making lol) but there is no real indication that it is rendering anything? when i click batch render again it does ask if i wish to cancel the current job so i guess that means that it is doing something at least.

Should i be seeing something, ie progress bar or anything, or should i jsut sit and wait?

thank you so much for replying, this has been doing my nut in for a long while

robin