Everything is in english on the premod I have installed except for one setting in french? What does it mean - I think it what I need to exclude to items from the google sitemap which I have resticted from robots.txt - but wanted to make sure as I don't understand French

Vérifier les exclusions du fichier robots.txt:
Vérifier et appliquer aux listes d’URLs les exclusions du fichier robots.txt s’il existe. Le MOD prend en compte automatiquement les mises à jour du fichier robots.txt.
Cette option est particulièrement pratique pour les imports TXT et XML, quand on n’est pas certain que les listes d’URLs importées ne contiennent aucune URL interdite.

Note :
Cette option impose plus de travail sur le fichier source, il est conseillé de l’utiliser avec le cache activé.

Oups, sorry, a little left over it seems.

Anyway, this option is to check robots.txt exclusion while fetching the sitemap or url list to build a sitemap, when for example the generated sitemap would contain bad url to get rid of which can occur with online generation.
All url disallowed by the robots.txt will in such case be dropped from the source and won't be displayed in the resulting imported sitemap.

This of course adds some work so it is recommended to use this option with caching activated.

If I restrict the following with robots.txt

forum-announces.xml.gz
forum-sitemap.xml.gz

Then check yes to that option - would it stop submitting those maps to google - the Google sitemaps work perfectly

Would there be a better way to go about this? I am getting errors on both of these through google - 1 for all having the same priority and the other is a 404 because I only have 1 announcement and it requires 3 to make a sitemap = by my own settings of course.

No, the robots.txt checks will only concern the url displayed in the sitemaps not the sitemap URLs.

For the forum-annouces.xml, it's a minor bug, solution is here :
http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/gym-sit ... html#22768

++