further to my posts above, i have reinstalled the contrib (stripped all the references from the database and started from scratch) but i still get the same problem i did try and change the link to a featured one to see if that worked but got this error in admin
1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE date_added = now()' at line 1
insert into links_featured (links_id, date_added, expires_date) values ('1', now(), '20061231') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE date_added = now()
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not great with php/sql so unsure if this could be the route of my problems?
Chris