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I think I have the solution, rather silly.

Tonight I did a rough polar align and slewed to acrux, which it missed by over 5 degrees, but RA looked close. Slewed to Alpha Centauri, moved the scope to physically point to Alpha C. and then slewed to acrux, which it found OK.

I've noticed that the balance of the scope on the mount is not good, due to the grease stopping the scope from rotating when I release the clutches when I try to balance the scope. So I suspect that a combination of not tightening up the clutches far enough and the scope being out of balance was causing the alignment to go completely out of wack.

Looks like I'll be cleaning out the grease using Astroboy's guide...