dittohead,
OK, I've got it! just wanted to let you know I have found the problem. Paged signal was left floating on my board. it should be as I understand now grounded, otherwise certain registers appear at different offsets.
I've not gotten to the point that I can load the address into ADR0 and find the TNT4882 from MAX at the correct address of 3.
This particular issue now seems to be closed for me, I will now go on to try to receive data and send data.
Thanks for all of your help.