Hi Noblepepper,
Well I popped along to a Hackspace and someone there was able to give me some assistance.
We (he) restored the image which we downloaded from the arduino website. I am not entirely sure how he did it, as we could not access the webpanel and he ssh'ed into it somehow, without a pass word. I know he was having trouble mounting the sd card in terminal, so how it was done I don't know.
Thankfully it appears to be restored, and I will see how it progresses.
There is some syntax learning to be done on my part.
But thanks for the help.
Liam