Right wildkard, thanks to Yaffle and you! I am now happy that with all of this input Sam et al have solved the profile text bug. Any outlying problem seems to be with kodi and add-ons. Interestingly it was while I ‘hammered’ my test pi with lots of logouts and logins in quick succession that I seemed to have got the sad face. Giving the system a more ‘real’ working environment clears up most of the issues. Problem solved with missing text on multiple profles 
AND of course thanks so much to the osmc team for sorting this. Gonna mark this solved 