Looks like Craig is right in suspecting that the PostGIS installation was causing the problem. I did a full reinstall of Postgres and ran it without PostGIS with no problems. For those interested, the bug has been noted on the PostGIS bugs list but yet to have a fix.
http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/518
Thanks for the help.
Cheers
Adrian
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