Thanks for the reply floppyman,
libstdc++4 apparently is the older version, with 5 being the newest, so I was advised to compile from source which I tried to do but various things failed
You can read my pretty much identical post at linuxforums.org (
http://www.linuxforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=2897)
At the above post we've nearly sorted it
Anyway, I figure I might just reformat the linux partitions and start afresh because whenever I try to access /mnt/nt now the Linux system crashes!
Jim