hmm yup the patches sometimes do that, when they cant spent too much time on them ... however the only way I can see you playing your 38 characters is by un-installing and re-installing without the patch and then only if those save files havent' been corrupted by the patch <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

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