Superb, removing home.php and editing index.php did the trick. Thank you very much.
I have modified the theme to fit with what was needed...I hope that is ok - I left the credit to you in place though if that helps :)
As for the splashscreen, it uses a wordpress plugin that sets a cookie for that browser session...I may well remove it, but it is not actually possible to bypass the splashscreen without the cookie being set. I should have disabled the plugin before asking you to take a look though, sorry about that.
Many thanks again for your help