well - its 3 months later!
I did indeed go to UK ebay, got a bargain 7" touchscreen for about £90.
when it arrived there was a one pixel wide red vertical line through it , so i sent it back. It then took ten weeks for the replacement to arrive, meanwhile the seller had left ebay - i was getting a bit worried!
anyway it arrived, i began setting it up with the laptop, the laptops paltry 3gb drive failed ! my brother gave me a 2.5" 60gb drive , i killed the laptop changing it, or so i thought. After it being dead for a week, not starting up with either hard drive or even with no hard drive, i reseated the ram for the 5th time and it sprang into life and recognised the full 60 gb! yay!
i was on the verge of throwing it away.
so at last i am ready to proceed
