Well thought I may be able to save some people some time
I have spent the best part of the last week looking for some resonable software that had web access,mce plug in,and looked and performed well
Homeseer was the best but very expensive $400 nz plus u have to pay for the mce plug in as well
Active home pro pretty good but still to expensive for me
about to give up then stumbled on this
X10 Controller 1.0.1
which i found on cnet at
http://www.download.com/X10-Controll...l?tag=lst-0-2d
It also has a mce plugin which is downloaded seperatly (intructions in the help file in its installed folder)
cost some thing like 20 dollars and does the job very nicly
http://www.download.com/X10-Controll...ml?tag=lst-0-2