Ignore my above rubbish of me trying to explain glPushMatrix and Pop, someone else explained it much simpler ...
Daveperman said...
"
you push the current matrix
you manipulate the matrix (rotate, translate etc)
you pop it back to the state it was before
"

damn, I take the long way around, LoL!

i''d really like to thank terraX for his help, he got those darn dice spinning in place now.

Thnx bro