EvanCross, That's okay, I'm glad that people are interested enough in this to ask me how things are coming! Saint Minor is right though on this occasion... not so much the 5 days thing, but where I said the reason I was posting that update is becasue I was hitting a very busy period of uni work [I have no hair anymore..., so that's how much] so I couldn't work on this for a while.
Mastermind, thanks for noticing but I think I have changed all the little graphical niggles in the battle system after I sent you that version. If you still haven't done the box puzzle, i can tell you over msn sometime, there's no point making walkthroughs for a game not even released yet in this thread!