Maybe I'm thick but...

[Sean Lewis]

Ok Kiddies

I figured it out..

rm the httpd lock from /var/lock/subsys...

...and it started, although it did give me a weird error message on startup
as follows: 

Starting httpd: httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified
domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

is this something I have to setup in a .conf file somewhere?

Thank you everybody who helped, I've learnt SO much about linux because of
this issue, really beginning to feel comfortable about the power of the
terminal.

:o)

Sean