@Crusher
Yup. It's a great site. In fact I emailed Mark there and he was great at replying. I think the problem may be with the internal floppy drive. I don't think it's working at 100%, so I'm going to rebuild/replace it and try again. I'm hoping this allows progress. According to all that I have conversed with about this, it should be very straightforward to get this working which is why I'm leaning towards a hardware issue.