Right i can't work out how to fix this issue and if the guy that wrote the thing won't help i have no choice. What ive done is to move the bit of the <head> tag from doctype to the end of the header tags code, so only a few lines, out of the includes/header.php file and put it back into all the root files, so everythings working now 100% except for the double // on the homepage canonical issue and the root files aren't as clean as i wanted them to be but it's no big deal as the doctype, html params and header tags code shouldn't need changing very often if at all and ive adjusted my blank page template as well so shouldn't be any problems in the future. Look forward to the next version coming out and it'll also give me chance to see if the version checker is working.