I continued to get a reference to LILO ecerytime I loaded which necessitated the destination clean-up.....I formatted and set up new partitions, including a /home ........and flagged sda1 as boot?.....i also, traditionally run as ext3 which, for some reason, reduces boot time in Slitaz???
I followed Gibors instructions, used only the terminal & Linux to DD etc and found that things are working.
I feel that cleaning up the destination made the difference for me, I used the terminal to make sure it was done correctly but Gparted should be just as good!