Hi Les
It sounds as though you may have a faulty sensor and this is why you cannot set the system also.
If this is the case you just need the following:
1: competent engineer to put your system into engineers mode
2: you can then safely check and replace the pir without the system locking out and going into tamper alarm when attemp[ting any work on system
3: reset and test panel and away you go!
4:Any help with this just let me know
Alex
October 2010