I have twiddled with colour schemes and settings and if I revert to the standard boring old schemes the easy to see text cursor appears.
I will be changing item settings one at a time until I get to my prefered colour scheme. If the cursor changes I might have a better chance of seeing what causes it (time permitting). Very tedious.
stickyb: Checked out that bug thingy and the dll, Oleacc.dll, was not in my Version Conflict Manager. Is that a problem or should I get the dll from somewhere and install it.
Thanks for your input people!