I will be working on live with D7 live or beta by the end of the month regardless of the situation. I said I would be able to get a client a website with certain functionality by mid October based on what Boonex had said. Obviously when I talked to the client I added a good one month of bespoke work, plus 3 months for boonex to finish the beta, on my deadline to avoid any embarrassing delays. That will teach me.
So as it stands, I will let the website go live and then make the approapriate beta see more amendments to update the client’s website with any updates/amendments via beta. It way take some time but it is either that or I have to return the funds back to the client via escrow. My own, incredibly stupid, fault.