Hi again,
Okay I hear what you are saying, I think I was side tracked here perhaps, I was following a thred from some guys blog and understood he did his milling machine this way.
Way forward
So I have 3 x sparkfun easydriver boards and 3 x stepper motors, I will attempt to run the sparkfun stepper motor boards directly of the Parallel port instead of the Arduino board, there should be enough juice from the Parallel port.
I will update this thread with my progress and hopefully it will help someone else.
Thank you Stirling, you have been a great help "eye openner" and I very much appreciate your help.
Kind Regards, Will be updating this thread in the next month while the project takes of.