First off, thank you for the help, its much appreciated. Internet is definitely working from the box e2iplayer is fine.
Tried your file, loaded and list appeared fine but the channels just don't work?
I saw a post recommending installing ffmpeg library to fix similar problem, not sure how to do that, think it involves telnet to the box and some commands or something? Did you need to install anything like that originally?
I'm stumped anyway!