Ok no problems... will set that up tonight and report back ... I did have a feeling that the number of plugins may cause a bit of a problem .. Sorry about that ...
new test blog is
http://blog.andyhopkins.com
update: I'm getting the same issues with test blog.
It's using serendipity it says ver1 alpha but I did upload v1 beta 2! ?
Plugins very basic.
Markup: Serendipity
Markup: Emoticate
Markup: NL2BR
Browser Compatibility
Spam Protector
Spartacus
Spam Protector (SURBL)
Podcast
Hope this helps
TIA
Podcast setting?
Activate PEAR::Lite Caching? yes
Link to Moodle Player for enclosure-playback in HTML-Frontend? YES
Choose tagging mechanism
[podcast: ...]-style <<<< this is the one I have selected
<a href="...">-style
Serendipity - Site, finished

Mine that is ... so lots of nonsensical Stuff