The script was for a grass entity so you can see why I did not want colon - I did nothing but make a stupid mistake and no one would be a silly as I was in needing to know what I did - it would be to embarrasing.
Well OK then just so I can cheer you all up and give you a good laugh and I expect to see lots of them :
I knew how to script what was needed but - I stupidly saved the entities script file as .fpe and not .fpi from notepad and it was a while before I realised what was happening.
Now for the laughs........God this is gonna be a long thread...