Thanks for the help, great price on the VPA units, but I already have a spare. Glad to read '05 audio's not done it (the spare I have Neil is the Euro '05 I was going to get decoded for you, but put it on the shelf when you lost your Coupe)
They coded them on the UK cars and I wasn't given the code with it - doh! Anyway, I'll be able to use that one now. I only use the CD player, when it first went wrong I blamed my partner thinking he'd disabled it (as he doesn't share the same rock / heavy metal tastes as me).