Many, many thanks for all the helpfull suggestions, and for the reminders of past sites and forgotten abilities.  Very determined to rediscover previous pleasures, and thanks to such helpful atitudes I now know it will be possible.        Would like to say that I found this Renderosity  Forum site purely by chance, having looked for some time at many others that seemed to concentrate on unclear rules spoken in broken pigin English  intersperced with some unknown hieroglyphics of questionable meaning.  

Delighted to find that English is still spoken here.      Thanks once again for your great help.