Past three days has been a bugfixorama where Minerva is concerned, I managed to tackle several nasties and inject the CVS with the corrected code 
Bugs fixed include …
- Unread posts tracking
- Groups Management
- Search with global announcements
- Blocks updated to work with new caching changes
- Little wriggly bits that I created
Off to watch some TV or maybe play some Quake 4 … later.