Thanks for your input, it is too late at night in Europe for me to work on it now.
Ben, I can get the 5 thumnails across the page, no problem, I just can't get the second row underneath. There are no ul li tags in the rendered html source code and it does mention in the css file that the ul is dynamically generated and there are changes to be made in the js file if there are modifications to stripNav.
Eric, that's the second option I mentioned,
http://tenerifeb usinessinformation.com/sliders/trial2.html
is based on this demo
http://css-tricks.com/examples/FeaturedContentSlider/
I can get the second row of thumbnails but I can't get them ligned up with the active tag.
Anyway I have been looking at it for too long (brain overload) and need to decant the whole thing with a little sleep, and maybe I'll find the solution ( or you will!!) tomorrow.