Sincere thanks for your support fellas.

No news as yet. I was told recently about a ring of thieves targeting 4WDs about 6 months ago, who would dismantle them at the docks and ship them as "scrap metal" to the Middle East, where they were rebuilt and sold. They were busted (in Melbourne I think) but who knows if there's an equivalent up here or not.

In any case, lesson learned - install a killswitch.
And whoever came up with the idea of a timed killswitch that cuts the fuel off after 120 seconds and sets off an orange smoke-flare in the cabin - GENIUS.