Ok i used the same user name and password that was set up in the google ftp account and this is the same as the google configuration in the admin.

You got that right - I may have done thing round about but i DL the gnerated file via Filezilla and the did a manual upload - but I think I will run into trouble because I have more than one data feed generated to my site. We will see - it is still processing.

any other hints?