After a process of elimination and trying various combinations modules etc. I found that the problem was resolved by de-installing the Articles module by Efficion. The peoblem occured when the articles module was installed last. There must be a conflict somewhere with the other modules mentioned in this post as the article module works fine as a stand alone.

I have not had the time to figure out which one but if I do I will post here. Also, there was an error on install that I did not catch and perhaps this was part of the cause as well - the articles modules install threw an error that function "dbo.CSVToInt already exists" although the module worked perhaps this was the cause.

The folks at efficion suggested that I delete the function and retry which I will do and post as well.

Thanks to those that repsonded off line. Hats off to the guys that write these modules and provide support.

Carl