Thanks for providing me with an alternative, but I decided just to replay part of the game.
Most of the good equipment was still in my stack (except one),just not the golden charms I'd put in them.Frequent visits to Croxy easily replaced them and I had fun using flash attack on those pesky imp mages again. A big thanks for your information though since now I know that when ".temp" appears after a save (visible even ingame on the load or save screen) that something is going wrong.