Thanks guys... After stretching these I realized straight away that I will need flats... Also would have helped if I remembered to use the field flattener..
Mark, From where I took these, You can't see the milky way, about mag 4~5 is the limit.. Light pollution is paramount.. I'll give lowering the Offset a go.. the background level is something that I struggled with, untill I just said "stuff it... it still looks good."
I will also try raising the black point. since posting the image I have given it a bit of a contrast tweak anyways as it looked a little wishy washy..
Thanks for the comments guys..
Hopefully autoguiding will be sorted by the weekend.