Hi Rod,
sorry to take so long to respond. I have been side tracked looking at calendaring software. I am attempting to use the australian service accounts v2. These don't appear to have changed from the ones I initially tried and are still causing the same problem. The australian 0000 chart of accounts appear to also have not been changed.
However I think I now have an answer to the problem. Documented here for others with this problem.
Take the en_US-new.sql script that is sitting int he sql directory in the frontaccount directory tree, and copy across the create users table and insert data for users. Also copy across the inserts for the security roles.
The other thing that you need to do is to get a working user id. Open a mysql client as root (mysql -u root -p), use the database, and then copy the admin id across from the first company: insert into 9_users ( select * from 0_users where user_id="admin" );
It appears that between the creation of that accounts script and now the user table has changed due to a fundamental change in the way security is done.
Hopefully now it all works.
Cheers Paul