i went into ftp and changed the navt plugin file permissions to 777 from 755 and now i can see navt in the menu and it shows up on the site.
its still terribly buggy though, pages going missing, losing proper names, jumbling up etc etc.
Its so close to being the perfect plugin but is just unreliable at present. Normally the bugs and errors start happening when you edit a page, i.e. it will change name in the list or go missing altogether.
David.