Ok for starters putting "page" into includes/modules/MY_TEMPLATE is a bad idea - I overwrote the core files in "pages" with the ones from the plug-in and now the backend attributes/stock table has background colour. Unfortunately hasn't solved the ordering issues

So maybe that part of the instructions is an artefact from a previous version? http://www.nectarina.co.uk/readme.html

I'm going to try copying all the files again... Be soooooooooo good if just the one plug-in would work for me.