Well, blow me down. As mentioned previously I have had all manner of issues with ColdFusion. I thought I had tried everything. I upgraded Apache. Downloaded the latest versions of the CF software etc. All to no avail.
As I was reading through the last post I made, I noticed that I had missed a vital step. I never tried the manual configuration methods on the 2.0.58 version of the server. I upgraded to 2.2 first. Would this do the trick?
Suffice to say after a 2 minute download, 5 minute install and 5 minute manual tweaking I now have a fully running ColdFusion system at last!