Right that's simple enough then.
Eventually figured bitcoin.conf must be C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application data\BitCoin
Had started messing around with the daemon and was getting confused.
Not boot strapping IRC wont cause any connectivity issues then ?
"addr - Provide information on known nodes of the network. Non-advertised nodes should be forgotten after typically 3 hours"
For example; when using maxconnections=10 would I still need to specify a default addnode=192.0.2.X list ?
Thanks again