Hi _JT_,
Thanks for posting up your alternative solutions - both were very similar to what I ended up doing, but I do like your second one, particularly as I've never really been a big fan of working out CAML statements! I will try out the second one as part of playing around with SPServices in my environment - hopefully I can adapt it for some of the other service calls I've been able to work out how to use.
Cheers,
Alex.
