I've just downloaded and installed the latest BB and it worked fine even restoring all of my data and settings/ On ebig problkem though... I can't get my email to work. My email accounts are there but they won't send/receive and mysteriously my Browser application has gone AWOL too.

I'm with Orange U.K.

The service books are there? Options > Advanced > Service books.

Pull the battery and reboot the 8100 again.

service books are there but it still wont work...

I have noBroser application and email wont send//receive. Is it possible that when my machine was wiped and reinstalled they left out the browse functionality???

No, benlerner, "they" didn't leave the browser out of one whole OS update. Besides, the browser only comes once you have registered the device, etc., and the service book is sent down.

You do have a BlackBerry Data Plan for this BB, right? Subscribed from your carrier?

Go back to Options > Advanced > Host Routing Table and click to Register Now. Pull the battery and reboot again. Any luck?