After installing modules as required then trying to do site / configure views mail I get this:

Unknown table 'term_data' in field list query: SELECT term_data.tid,term_data.name FROM drpl_term_data INNER JOIN drpl_vocabulary ON term_data.vid = vocabulary.vid WHERE vocabulary.module = 'simplenews' ORDER BY term_data.name in /home/cmcnetnz/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172.

Tried the more recent 2.x.Dev version of Views mail and also had a look at a patch that claimed to fix a problem with lack of curly brackets around table names, but that seems already to be in the 5.x.1.2 and 5.x.2.x code anyway.

Not ever done anything with vocabulary, not sure if that is relevant at all..?

Status report:
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Drupal 5.3
CAPTCHA Already 459 blocked form submissions
Configuration file Protected
Cron maintenance tasks Last run 41 sec ago

Database schema Up to date
File system Writable (public download method)
GD library bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
JQuery Update Installed correctly
The current installed version of JQuery is 1.1.2
MySQL database 4.1.11
PHP 5.2.3-0.dotdeb.0
Unicode library PHP Mbstring Extension
Web server Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.2.3-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e

Mail modules
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Mass Contact 5.x-2.4-beta
Mime Mail 5.x-1.0 E-mail with HTML and attachments
Required by: Views mail (enabled)
Simplenews 5.x-1.5 Send newsletters to subscribed e-mail addresses.
Depends on: Taxonomy (enabled)
Required by: Views mail (enabled)
Subscriptions 5.x-1.9 Allows users to subscribe to nodes and taxonomy terms.

Views Modules
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Views 5.x-1.6 The views module creates customized views of node lists.
Required by: Event Views (enabled), Views mail (enabled), Views RSS (enabled), Views Theme Wizard (enabled), Views UI (enabled)
Views mail 5.x-2.x-dev Mail to a group as selected by a views view.
Depends on: Views (enabled), Content (enabled), Simplenews (enabled), Mime Mail (enabled), Actions (enabled), Scheduled Actions (enabled)
Views RSS 5.x-1.6 RSS plugin for the views feed selector argument.
Depends on: Views (enabled)
Views Theme Wizard 5.x-1.6 The views theme wizard helps create stub theming for views.
Depends on: Views (enabled)
Views UI 5.x-1.6 The Views UI module allows you to create and edit views.
Depends on: Views (enabled)

Any clues appreciated!! Thanks Greg