Thanks for your time D & P. After Pete's recommendation, I updated my seam and then generated a new application skeleton made a few modifications to build.xml and a few other bits, copied over my source and it worked.
I broke stuff in CVS quite badly around then and it took a while to get it fixed up.
Well, you are doing a brilliant job mate and your support is much appreciated. I'm not sure which parts of seam you develop but I do see that you answer a lot of questions on here.
We all do all bits ;)