Sorry for the cross post, I originally posted this message to the wrong list. It won't happen again I promise ;-)
[actually I screwed up the address in the cross post anyway, so ignore that]
I've solved the heating problems at last. I removed the IBM ACPI support from the kernel and installed the version from portage, swapped speedfreq with cpufreqd, loaded the modules and now everything seems to be running nicely.
I'm still hitting 70-71 degrees when compiling, which is still a concern - but to aid my paranoia, I've written a couple of scripts that enable me to cut down the CPU speed to 1/3 or 2/3 of full power, which keeps me at a more comfortable 45-50 or 55-60 degrees whilst compiling.
Thanks for your help Jordi, Andrew, Eugene and 'AR' :)
Cliff the happy Gentoo user
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