Thanks for your suggestion gents, but
SUCCESS!!!
After a second look at the "Power flyer specific"
hardware fix, i realised that it was universal, i
simply couldn't get at Gayle because of the scandoubler
socket on Alice. I snipped off the wires from the
socket and with shaking hands soldered them directly
to Alice, thus freeing up space around Gayle, ready
to take Power Computing's hardware fix. Result -
system now boots with LAN card in place. I still
can't test broadband until my town gets switched on
a week today, but i'll keep you posted.
Cheers,
Lurkist.