Richard: Oooh, that's about 20 times more advanced than what I currently have. While I'm going to carry on with what I have, I'll make use of what you post here so I can add bits to my own and learn how it works rather than do a straight 'copy and paste' of it. I learn faster that way.
Iffy: Yeah it is odd, I did a search for 'editshortcut' in the UDFs forum but it came back with nothing.

The M$ forum merely said 'look at CreateShortcut method' in WSH, so I have the guide for the methods it has. I have solved the 'execution' issue I had, it now executes it, albeit not exactly cleanly.

Thanks for all your help though, I feel I'm much closer to completing this than I was 48 hours ago... now I just gotta hope it works how management expect... yaaay