Okay, so while looking to see if Reaktor has high-resolution mode I turned it on and off and it seems to have fixed the problem. I don't know if it fixed it permanently but I will test it tonight. As you can see the Automation lanes now have values.
To answer David's question of behaviour : Essestially Logic was following the automation curves but only the VOLUME (a logic function) was actually doing anything (being automated) , the filters and noise automation of for example were not moving any knobs on Reaktor.
Reaktor (and Many Native Plugs ) is convulted and bloated and has been a pain since I started using it in 2008. But I get good sounds from it ! I've had lots of crashes with NI since moving to 10.6
Jeremy