[Maree]

Thanks Amy - that was the problem.

The following notes are for others who are looking at this hack-

I now have recommended products randomly displaying in a 2 column 200 thumbnail format (thanks to Balinors Mod in Completed Mods). I've also added a hack to pull the price up

2 problems with doing all this -recommended products is displaying products that are hidden but available for sale - and the price is not displayed in the nicely formated including GST display that was on featured products.

So the best way I feel is to request xcart to add a checkbox in future releases so that featured products can be dispayed randomy from the whole active product catalogue or a user nominated array.

Hope this helps someone else