Solved! Yay, it was an SMB problem (at least secondarily). I have sorted out my samba shares as per thread below and now my videos are listing no-problem.
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,12739.msg91347.html#msg91347Viking... since you started this thread and I hijacked it and now both of our video lists are available to us, can I trouble you to mark the thread as [solved]?
Many thanks.
I am going to open a new thread in developers to query the brains of the mighty about the statusradar script whose logic I believe to be confusing to my little brain.