Hi Nathan,
Yes you were correct it turned out to be an authorisation issue to do with one of the auth objects and the correct value. I assigned SAP_ALL and found out that the launchpad was visible, therefore indicating that it had to be an auth issue so did further investigation from there and rectified it.
Cheer mate and thanks to everyone for responding to this.
PS: Diego, yes you were right too....your message seemed to have got tangled up between all the other messages but you did beat Nathan to it but for some reason I only saw Nathan's message? So thanks to you too 
Paul