Thanks for all the input chaps, I have finally gone the old fashioned route and stuck a cable in the back of the PC, wireless just didnt want to work, I tried everything!
Also the reason that the Discover Networks was not enabling seems to have been related to some Norton Programme that was loaded by default on the machine, only after I had clicked all the agreements on it and installed the hatefull software which will eventually cause me a major headache...did it all seem to work!
Managed to get Office up and running now YAY! (god my life is pathetic.)
Thanks again!
Ant