okay I have figured it out myself here............ thanks anyway stroker I realise you were on the run there
Once you have the image the size and how you want it.........
select the view/new guide and tell it where you want it positioned click okay
do this for where you would like it sliced
select the slice tool and click the slice to guides button
then go to file/ save for web and save it as a html
from here I played around deleting "blank" images and merging cells etc and there I have it! whew it only took me hours to figure this one out [doh]
if you look at the image below you will see a screen shot of what it looked like sliced with the red lines as my guide lines [oops]
sfm
slice n serve 
Linear Mode
