Hi Slimboy, thank you, THANK YOU! Your post has given me hope that my package may still be ok! I got somebody else to post it and when they told me how cheap it was I thought 'wow, that is cheap to Australia' - maybe that is why! They chose surface mail! There is light at the end of the tunnel now, and yes, I am a cheapskate.
As for the youtube problem, I dont think it has been resolved, since I tried to post a video and nothing came up. It's a pain in the arse on here to use Firefox though.