Thanks t-p for responding…. i felt lost in the www
All sorted now.
We (my lecturer) tried the de-activating the plugging folder but no change. I can’t remember what else he did we also got another fatal error message ….
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_front_page_template() in <my website>\httpdocs\wp-includes\template-loader.php on line 26”.
.. long story short
we found this on the forum under title
[resolved] Upgrade to 3.4 from 3.1.1 Fatal error (17 posts)
“It’s a known issue if you haven’t updated the root wp-settings.php file. Try grabbing another download, deleting wp-settings.php in root and just uploading this file.” by semi – Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
So, he just that and now we are in!
Problem solved
Thanks everyone