Thanks Sergio - I did plunder that thread and others, but I don't yet have the smarts to figure out how to do this bit in PixelMath:
"Then use PixelMath to generate the whole mosaic with a maximum operation between all registered frames"
I'd would greatly appreciate a guru showing a screenshot of the correct expression loaded up into PM pretty please....

I'm pretty sure I'll end up going back to using DynamicAlignment too, but the learning curve has been steep the last few nights - I need another beer I suspect....!

In the meanwhile I guess I'll have to grow up and get my head around PM workflow.....