Martyn, You are posting to the wrong forum. Flex Viewer and or widget questions belong in the Flex Viewer forum:http://forums.arcgis.com/forums/111-ArcGIS-Viewer-for-FlexAlso this question has been asked and answered MANY TIMES. Bottom line is, it is not possible unless you are a very experienced developer and prepared to re-write the whole toc package under the FlexViewer2.5/src/com/esri/viewer/components which the layer list widget uses.Don't forget to click the Mark as answer check and to click the top arrow (promote) as shown below: