hey cozmo thanks for the reply.
No joy tho man. No youtube or Icefilms in there at all which are the 2 im primarily after, and the only plugins i didnt already have installed were opensubs and games on net. None of the video based plugins listed in there work either.
I dont think its a compat issue. I think there is something else going on. Like i said in my post a mate is running Youtube 1.7.4 on his xbox with no probs at all. Ive got him bringing his machine here in the next few days to test.
I deleted my xbmc and went back to 3.0.1 stable to see if any difference, no change. Had to go back to the latest nightly tho coz my DB backup wouldnt work on 3.0.1 and it takes about 7 days to rebuild.
Still scratching my head.