Hello barnesy.

You have, as jaslake pointed out, inadvertently broken one of the forum rules. I fail to see the "poor and patronizing attitude" you speak of. After all, jaslake suggested that you PM him with a link to any new thread you start so that he could look at it with a view towards helping you. Please look at it from the view of those volunteering to help. When duplicate posts are made there is a chance they won't be noticed (as in this case) and that could lead to different volunteers working on the same issue at the same time unaware of each other's work. Hardly an appropriate situation and that is why there is a rule in place to prohibit posting duplicate threads. The following is that rule:

This is a duplicate post and as such does not comply with Rule 5 of our forum rules. This thread will now be closed, you may continue in your other thread.

Thread Closed.