Some more information for you.
I did a complete system restore from 2 days prior to the crash: (16th Dec).
Everything has loaded correctly except GarageSale which still cannot get past those error messages:
The only instance of this missing file on my backup disk was on the backup instance of 4 December.
This was within a day of me opening up the GS query
on Spurious Records and this error message which was never resolved or explained by GS Help
Please advise my next step ASAP
Regards David