Thanks for the sympathy - it taught me a serious lesson - mainly do not trust Americans - my total cost on trying to get it back into the condition it was in when it went up to the US have now passed US$100,000 - still waiting on news about the condition my autopilots are in (unusually it has the full on A/P, alt hold and full ILS - before now I have had it passing over the fence at Grantley Adams on the A/P - not a smart thing to do but just curious to see how good it was).
At one point at the outset of the whole saga I did assert to my lawyer that we should just get an agreement to burn the plane - oddly the lawyer didn't seem keen on that!
One day once I get it back here I will post a long article somewhere setting out the bizarre circumstances that led up to the plane going to the US in the first place.