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Well some good news on this (sort of!)
I tweaked the file core.php located in \modules\system\preloads.
By commenting out this line:
$GLOBALS['xoTheme']->addScript('browse.php?Frameworks/jquery/jquery.js');
found under the following 2 functions:-
function eventCoreHeaderAddmeta($args)
function eventSystemClassGuiHeader($args)
This stopped the Jgrowl reloading Jquery and overwriting the theme Jquery for the slider.
Not pretty but seems to work.
I'm sure there is a guru who can do a much better job than I can.
Alan
EDIT: doing this also affects the admin side - no jgrowl messages
still a little more work to do.......