Hi Liam
thanks for the suggestion but I am afraid my computer knowledge is rather limited and I wouldn't have a clue how to format a floppy to make a Mac talk to a PC let alone do the other things.
I think the problem may be something extremely basic because whenever I try to connect the PC to the net I get this message:
"cannot find server or DNS error" at the bottom of the page that is headed "The page cannot be displayed"