Thanks Craig, but I checked that mate. I've just completely drifted off the radar for some reason. I tried posting the same question in the YouTube forums and someone else said the same thing happened to him.
I'm beginning to think it might be something to do with Google as they've somehow managed to swap my long-used Google/YouTube account email to a throwaway gmail address I used for a one-off registration elsewhere. Now I've had to set up the new email they've 'accidentally' assigned to my account to forward everything to my usual address. It will be interesting to see if that sorts it out.