Thanks for your thoughts it is really annoying me now as I wanted to get a website sorted this weekend and time is just evaporating.
What really annoys me is the lack of answer from 123-reg to my original question and now I get the email saying my follow up question has been responded to only to log in and find nothing!
Couple that with a perpetual nag screen demanding my credit card details, perpetual security certificate error this nag screen throws up in my browser and now being fobbed off like a dummy means I'm really getting tempted to move the damn lot to another registrar right now.