First i edited my thumbnail theme support in my functions file to:
// ADD THUMBNAIL SUPPORT
if ( function_exists( ‘add_theme_support’ ) ) {
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’,array(‘post’,’page’));
add_theme_support( ‘get-the-image’ );
}

by adding array(‘post’,’page’).

then i added a function to insert the featured image into the page Above the page title:

add_action( ‘hybrid_before_content’, ‘my_before_content’ );
function my_before_content(){
if (is_page() && has_post_thumbnail()) { ?>

}
}// end function

blimey if it doesn’t actually work!!