Well. bizarrely enough, I found a way around the podfarm issue. I went to my account. From there, I had to download a new version of my license. I restarted and dug out the version 2 from the hard drive that I downloaded yesterday.Now I have the nice and tidy version of podfarm.Bear in mind that, the version 2 would not open yesterday.
One other thing, I looked on google for various problems, and it seems that although snow leopard was a bit problematic for many at first,it is apparently the last 'good version' of osx. Not many people like lions , it seems. Cheers