Hi mate, Thanks alot for your help. Amiga Forever seems to be running alot better now, ive plateaued out at 800*600 at 8 bit which is basically running about the same speed as my old 060 based amiga ran, and sometimes faster/slower. Overall Im actually pretty damn impressed after ironing out the problems, it seems i was wrong about the memory leak.
Remaining issues that Id love to solve:
fkey still wont save (the icon information saves fine, but not the actual fkey prefs - where are they actually saved?
is there any way to "pipe" them in from a script at boot time? or is there an fkey replacement?)
the palette messes up when i flip to workbench from windows - this means all the icons, mui colours and especially web browsing looks terrible.
someone has seen fit to make "page down" jump to some very odd amiga style bluescreen of death - i dont know what the hell it is or how to quit it without rebooting! This is rather annoying as I hit it sometimes when im trying to press enter.
On a another note, i think running it on windows is now essential as I had completely forgotten how incomatible amiga browsers are, I need to be able to flip to windows for a few things so infact i think this is a relatively good solution, even if it no doubt runs alot slower with windows churning away in the background.
Happy new year to you too, I was at the edinburgh street party which was fun!