Hi Philip
sorry about te delayed reply.
I created a characteristic as I have many times before.
The only difference was that this characteristic had a lot of variables, 22
I made this characteristic (as you have seen) x 1 x 2 x 3 using the same information each time.
I added it all to the product, and it just froze up.
I could not do anything, not delete, not remove, nothing.
I created another product,
using the same characteristics tried to add only 2 variables each time - 1 - 2 - 3
blank result
I went to the front of the site and got some crazy line of error ..
I had to use phpadmin to remove the previous product.
it seems to be working now , and so I am completely puzzled what happened, or why.
thanks for your time, appreciated as always
Ive attached some inages if they help in the future, and the link to the debug folder is still in the same place.