Yes, it would appear so. Which leads me to then clearly believe that all I updated were wordpress ‘updates’ not updates of plugins or themes and basically the designer is covering their backside in refusing to admit that it is something that they did in error.
This has only occurred in the last four days (I upgraded wordpress on the 2nd) and I doubt that these upgrades to plugins and themes are more recent than that.
Thanks again for your help. Just wanted to know that I was on the side of right.