Luckily there’s a Blender Discus coders forum… had done a bit of research and still was stuck… after a bit of back and forth in the forum the answer was…
>>>import sys
>>> >>>sys.path.append(r’drive:\path’)
and my scripts were now visible. Adding the path to the user preferences didn’t do it (I don’t know why still) and adding it to the OS path variable didn’t either. I’m now looking for how to persist the setting as it gets wiped out upon reboot/separate instance.