Must try to gert the back garden tidied before it rains! Then I can get on with resealing around the bath; a job I've been meaning to do fo about 3 years now...
No, not the alien conspiracy again; just a work thing, but I'm well chuffed because it looks as though we'll be able to program 16 phones at once after all. :)
One question remains though: What were National Instruments thinking of when they wrote the 'ComRead' function? A tight polling loop that uses up all the CPU time.... nice one guys. :(