Thanks Lyle and TR it worked like a treat... and we now have this simple forum thread that will hopefully explain the process to those other ubercart noobs out there that want to do this... surely I cant be the only one :/

zmove thanks for the advice. I did look at this module but was put off by the fact that the module page at http://www.ubercart.org/contrib/851 shows it is for version Alpha 7c and is still in Status: Awaiting moderation But I will have a look into it in more detail now I'm passed my first big hurdle.

Cheers.