Thanks for that link to the Synta version Alexander, yep it's definitely the same scope, except the lack of any finder in the Celestron version and the multiple colour schemes in both base laminate and OTA colour offered by Synta (including the "great names in Astronomy" version, ie white writing on black background, version that Celestron is using).
I did re-read the small English section on the single sheet "Instructions" that came with the scope, and they do mention in quite small print that if you have "problems" refer back to the Celestron website.
That lead me to find that there IS a much larger Instruction Manual available for download from this page:
http://www.celestron.com/c3/product....=92&ProdID=568
(click on the "support / files" tab)
The english language section here is 16 pages long - quite a difference to the single sheet blurb included in the box!
Having said that, this really should be included with the scope in the first place! I'm sure there are plenty of potential buyers who would NEVER go searching around a website for an instruction manual that they have no idea even exists.
There IS a section on collimating Newtonian reflectors, however with reference to this scope it only talks about adjustment of the secondary mirror. Being blessed with a laser collimator and an abundance of collimating experience from taming both my 12" GSO dob and my 5" Skywatcher Newt I will have a fiddle with this a bit later this afternoon and see if I can improve things, and as per your helpful suggestions above guys I'll try my "spare" GSO plossls in it instead of the supplied 4mm (Ramsden) and 20mm (Huygens) eyepieces.
I would still like to give this to my son as a surprise / reward for his recent improvements in schoolwork, but only if it's going to provide a positive experience for him, and not turn him away from Astronomy.
As an aside, if you want to see a REALLY good demonstration of Adobe Flash used in a website, then I don't believe I've seen better than the Flash tour for this scope on Celestron's website, use the same link as above and click on the Flash tour tab.
It's ironic - we usually recommend steering away from the wobbletronic grade scopes due to the harm, not good, they will do to a budding astronomers enthusiasm, in this case the mount is brilliantly simple and sturdy, the scope itself is the letdown.
I'll report again after some fiddling with the secondary, and some more testing tonight.