Dear billy423uk,
Have you considered the means by which you zoom in and out of your mesh in UV Mapper?  It might be what is causing the texture to tile instead of to wrap.  One of the ways that we get ground texture to tile on the GROUND Plain is to import it into UV Mapper ant then to Ctrl-Alt+ (or something like that) to enlarge it.  If you then resave it like this, then any texture applied to it is tiled onto it rather than stretched across its surface.
Just a thought,
Yours truly,
David P. Hoadley

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