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keighl you are a champion – thank you very much for your help on this!
I was worried my lack of knowledge here would have me completely stuffed, but your suggestion has yielded exactly what I wanted.
Cheers!

keighl – I don’t seem to have a directory called apps. The only directories in my theme folder are images, js and library.

songdogtech – I’m using Modularity lite.
In page.php, single.php and page-wide.php i have the following (already has the_content, and not the_excerpt)

page.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="span-<?php
		$sidebar_state = get_option('T_sidebar_state');

		if($sidebar_state == "On") {
			echo "15 colborder home";
		}
		else {
			echo "24 last";
		}
		?>">
<div class="content">
		<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
			<?php include (THEMELIB . '/apps/multimedia.php'); ?>
			<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
			<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
		</div>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
	</div>
	</div>
	<?php
		$sidebar_state = get_option('T_sidebar_state');

		if($sidebar_state == "On") {
			get_sidebar() ;
		}
		else {
			echo "";
		}
		?>

<!-- Begin Footer -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

single.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="span-<?php
		$sidebar_state = get_option('T_sidebar_state');

		if($sidebar_state == "On") {
			echo "15 colborder home";
		}
		else {
			echo "24 last";
		}
		?>">
<div class="content">
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php include (THEMELIB . '/apps/multimedia.php'); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>

<p class="postmetadata alt">
					<small>
						This entry was posted
						<?php /* This is commented, because it requires a little adjusting sometimes.
							You'll need to download this plugin, and follow the instructions:
							https://binarybonsai.com/archives/2004/08/17/time-since-plugin/ */
							/* $entry_datetime = abs(strtotime($post->post_date) - (60*120)); echo time_since($entry_datetime); echo ' ago'; */ ?>
						on <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> at <?php the_time() ?>
						and is filed under <?php the_category(', ') ?><?php if (get_the_tags()) the_tags(' and tagged with '); ?>.
							You can follow any responses to this entry through the <?php post_comments_feed_link('RSS 2.0'); ?> feed.

						<?php if (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
							// Both Comments and Pings are open ?>
							You can <a href="#respond">leave a response</a>, or <a href="<?php trackback_url(); ?>" rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.

						<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
							// Only Pings are Open ?>
							Responses are currently closed, but you can <a href="<?php trackback_url(); ?> " rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.

						<?php } elseif (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
							// Comments are open, Pings are not ?>
							You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

						<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
							// Neither Comments, nor Pings are open ?>
							Both comments and pings are currently closed.

						<?php } edit_post_link('Edit this entry','','.'); ?>

					</small>
				</p>

<div class="nav prev left"><?php next_post_link('%link', '&larr;', TRUE); ?></div>
<div class="nav next right"><?php previous_post_link('%link', '&rarr;', TRUE); ?></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
			<?php endwhile; else : ?>

				<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
				<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

			<?php endif; ?>
<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>
</div>

<?php
		$sidebar_state = get_option('T_sidebar_state');

		if($sidebar_state == "On") {
			get_sidebar() ;
		}
		else {
			echo "";
		}
		?>

<!-- Begin Footer -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

page-wide.php:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Wide Page
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="span-24 first last">
		<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
			<?php include (THEMELIB . '/apps/multimedia.php'); ?>
			<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
			<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
		</div>
		<div class="clear"></div>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks for the responses so far guys.
I don’t want to sound like a total fool, but the theme files listed are as follows and I can’t find reference to the loop in functions or index…or anywhere else for that matter (am i missing something??);

Theme Files
Templates

* 404 Template (404.php)
* Archives (archive.php)
* Comments (comments.php)
* Footer (footer.php)
* Header (header.php)
* Image Attachment Template (image.php)
* Main Index Template (index.php)
* Page Template (page.php)
* Search Form (searchform.php)
* Search Results (search.php)
* Sidebar (sidebar.php)
* Single Post (single.php)
* Theme Functions (functions.php)
* Wide Page Page Template (page-wide.php)
* nav.php (nav.php)

Styles

* Stylesheet (style.css)

songdogtech – thanks for your reply – I hadn’t actually posted any code.

The ‘editor’ I referred to is in fact the theme file editor – I cannot seem to find any reference to where a the_excerpt tag can be changed to the_content.

Come to think of it… there doesn’t even seem to be any evidence at all of post options in ‘the loop’ on my main index template;

<?php get_header(); ?>

<!-- Show the welcome box and slideshow only on first page.  Makes for better pagination. -->
<?php if ( $paged < 1 ) { ?>

<!-- Begin Welcome Box -->
<?php if (is_home()) include (THEMELIB . '/apps/welcomebox.php'); ?>

<!-- Begin Slideshow -->
<?php include (THEMELIB . '/apps/slideshow-static.php'); ?>

<!-- End Better Pagination -->
<?php } ?>

<!-- Begin Blog -->
<?php include (THEMELIB . '/apps/blog.php'); ?>

<!-- Begin Footer -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Any suggestions??