Belated reply...thanks to all who posted comments/ideas to my original
query. That was only 2 weeks ago.

Project is slipping into never-never land for a while due to lack of funding on
my clients part. Shame. Hopefully though it will come back again and I'll be
able to post the answer back here. They have found enough finances for the
firmware to be overhauled (again, not by me), so there's a chance the
problem may disappear when that is done.

Best regards, Brent.

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