diff --git a/core/views/other.py b/core/views/other.py
index b97ea9aee..f1cd6ac8c 100644
--- a/core/views/other.py
+++ b/core/views/other.py
@@ -159,7 +159,8 @@ def controlpanel(request):
         return render(
             request,
             "controlPanel.html",
-            {"error": 'You are logged in, but not logged in as "expoadmin". \nLogout and login again to contnue.', "year": current_expo()}
+            {"error": ' - Needs "expoadmin" logon. \nLogout and login again.', 
+            "year": current_expo()}
             
         )
     else:
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index 1e2303e85..d201b4cca 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -83,8 +83,9 @@ APPEND_SLASH = (
 )
 SMART_APPEND_SLASH = True  # not eorking as middleware different after Dj2.0
 
-
-LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = "/"  # does not seem to have any effect
+ROOT_URLCONF = "troggle.urls"
+LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = "/statistics"   # see troggle/core/views/auth.py
+LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = "/controlpanel"  # see troggle/core/views/auth.py
 
 SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF = True
 SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER = True
@@ -126,8 +127,6 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
     #'troggle.core.middleware.SmartAppendSlashMiddleware' # needs adapting after Dj2.0
 ]
 
-ROOT_URLCONF = "troggle.urls"
-
 WSGI_APPLICATION = "troggle.wsgi.application"  # change to asgi as soon as we upgrade to Django 3.0
 
 ACCOUNT_ACTIVATION_DAYS = 3
diff --git a/templates/controlPanel.html b/templates/controlPanel.html
index b8f66d5ee..acbd1c841 100644
--- a/templates/controlPanel.html
+++ b/templates/controlPanel.html
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {% extends "base.html" %}
 {% block content %}
 
+
 {% if jobs_completed %}
     <div class="noticeBox">
             &nbsp;Just finished running:
@@ -14,14 +15,16 @@
     </div>
 {% endif %}
 
+<!--
 {% if error %}
     <div class="noticeBox">
-            {{ error }}
     </div>
 {% endif %}
-<h3>Administration Utilities</h3>
+-->
+<img class = "onright" alt="troggle logo" src="/handbook/troggle/tricky-troggle.jpg">
+<h3>Troggle Administration Utilities</h3>
 <ul>
-<li><a href="/logreport/{{year}}">Delete logbook entry</a> -Online logbook suffers duplicate entries (needs admin logon)
+<li><a href="/logreport/{{year}}">Delete logbook entry</a> -Online logbook suffers duplicate entries <span style="color:red">{{error}}</span>
 <li><a href="/pathsreport">Folder paths used</a> -folders settings used by this troggle installation
 <li><a href="/cave_data/cavealiases.txt_edit">Edit cave aliases</a> -edit historical cave aliases to current names
 <li><a href="/aliases/2023">Expoer name aliases</a> -short names recognised by troggle
@@ -30,10 +33,11 @@
 <li><a href="/survexdir">Survex Directories</a> - Every Cave has an associated directory and a Primary survex file
 <li><a href="/surveximport">Survex import record</a> - indented *include and begin/end tree<br /><li><a href="/survexdebug">Survex debug report</a> - warnings and  details<br />
 <li><a href="/therionissues">Therion Import issues</a> - warnings from the recent data import<br /><br />
-<li><a href="/admin/">Django admin</a> - Deep magic access to all models and data
+<li><a href="/admin/">Django admin</a> - Deep magic access to all models and data <span style="color:red">{{error}}</span>
 </ul>
-<h3>This control panel is/will/mabe being redeveloped</h3>
+<h3>This control panel is/will/maybe being redeveloped</h3>
 
+<!--
 <p>Do not attempt to use any of these import functions as they are in active development. 
 <ol>
 <li>Importing things in the wrong order will screw-up the database links and break things.
@@ -114,6 +118,9 @@
 <p></font>
 
 <hr />
+-->
+
+<!--
 <h3>Export Logbook to a different format:</h3>
 <p>This creates 'logbook-new-format.html' in the years/&lt;year&gt;/ folder
 <table>
@@ -158,4 +165,5 @@
 <p>&nbsp;
 </div>
 </font>
+-->
 {% endblock %}    
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/urls.py b/urls.py
index 72c713fb7..e7c8f2122 100644
--- a/urls.py
+++ b/urls.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ else:
 
 # admin.site.urls is urls() which maps to get_urls() which is a function declared  
 # in django/contrib/admin/sites.py which for me is 
-# /home/philip/p11d5/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py
+# /home/philip/expo/troggle/.venv/lib/python3.xx/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py
 
 trogglepatterns = [
     path('pubs.htm', pubspage,      name="pubspage"), # ~165 hrefs to this url in expoweb files
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ trogglepatterns = [
     path('accounts/login/',    expologin,  name='expologin'),  # same as in django.contrib.auth.urls
     path("accounts/register/<slug:username>", register,   name="re_register"),
     path("accounts/register/", register,   name="register"),
-    path('accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),  # see site-packages\registration\auth_urls_classes.py
+    path('accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),  # see line 109 in this file 
 
     path('person/<slug:slug>', person, name="person"),
     path('personexpedition/<slug:slug>/<int:year>', personexpedition, name="personexpedition"),