Well I say productive day but the truth is I did not get a lot done. I however did get the stuff I intended to do with the blog done quite nicely. As always the behavior of the system was a complete mystery and baffled me. After hacking around in the code for about 3 hours I fixed the problem by ticking the boxes shown below.
I must now be just moments away from internet fame what with all of you being able to share it!