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Ni Nathan,
I have been playing with PHD lately (well its been a week or so due to #$%#! clouds) and had the same prob with finding stars too. thought I was really good and had nice sharp focus and no drift. it was a hot pixel. Asked a few questions on IIS and found that it was my focus, or lack of, Once I played around with the focus I was able to get stars and all was good. So I would agree with Graeme, play with your focus. I didnt take any dark frames and all worked fine. (once i stopped triing to use hot pixels).
Once you get it sorted PHD is very nice and like you say sure beats getting down on the wet grass.
Good luck and clear skies
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