Ershin

Yeah, I have the Steam version as well. Rearmed and Hinds, too, although I haven't had a chance to play them yet (to be totally honest, I'm a real newb when it comes to PC gaming. I got my first-ever gaming rig just a couple months ago). I can't even find where I'm supposed to enter the CD-key for Hinds... I also have the full version of Arma 2, though, so I dunno. I haven't played any Arma since getting TOH, so I don't think that's probably what caused it. Sounds like you should do the same thing that I did, Sven. It won't get your progress back, but at least you won't have to grind to repurchase all your copters. >_<

Well, that may have been the intention, but I literally can't (although at this point it's "couldn't") select contracts from the file cabinets, and in addition, all my helicopters were gone. So I think the intention probably went awry at some point if that's how it was supposed to work. But I figured out a not-entirely-satisfactory-but-good-enough solution. I still have to replay all the career missions, but I found a way to cheat my way into getting back the chopper I'd purchased without having to grind contracts to get it. I just edited a custom mission to award me the full price of a luxury medium upon completion of a task. It's not perfect, but oh well. Edit: (didn't see your edit). Yeah, you misunderstood. I'm sure you're right that it's supposed to work that way, but probably they didn't intend on people redoing the very first mission...I'm pretty sure that's what caused the problem in the first place.

So, hmm. Would it possible to simply edit that file to regain my progress? I wouldn't really know where to start, but if it's possible, that's at least reassuring news.

Well, it says "Benchmark (Seattle)". I tried that after getting frustrated with the loss of my Career progress. So maybe that's not really helpful.

I apologize if this is the wrong forum to be asking about this; it seemed to be the only "help" forum available. Also: sorry about the incredibly unhelpful topic title. It was supposed to say "Lost all progress in career". I had temporarily renamed it to try and search for related topics, but apparently I forgot to change it back. I recently completed career mode, and on a lark, I decided to try replaying the very first mission (when I first tried it, I screwed up the section where Joe asks you to try banking, and I just wanted to see if there was any real difference if you did it right). But now, even though from the main menu you can clearly see that I have completed all of the main story missions, when I actually try to "continue" from the heliport, it's as if I'd only ever completed the very first mission. Everything, including the luxury helicopter I had just purchased, along with all of my money and progress is gone. I even tried loading from the final mission and completing that, hoping that whatever flag might have been triggered by starting over would be untriggered by completing the game. No such luck though. Is there something that I'm overlooking, and perhaps there's a different method for continuing? As I said, all the missions are available from the main menu, and they only disappear once I've tried to load. Please help! As much as I've enjoyed this game, I don't think I'll be able to enjoy it much if I have to lose all my hard work and start over from scratch. I guess if that's the only option available to me...well maybe I'll try out some of the expansions or something. ;_; I was really looking forward to unlocking some more copters though. And especially looking forward to trying out the luxury medium I'd just bought.