Thanks Dave for sending the panel back to me, i managed to run it in "offline" mode but as soon as i changed the dispatcher settings to My layout i got the same problem.
Looking at the connection bit, i noticed it was connecting to "My Layout" with "Signal Heads", as soon as i changed this to "signal masts" the problems went away.
I have now managed to dispatch a train round half of the layout so that is great progress!
Thanks for your help.
Tim