I drug my golden child to the boulder and he disappeared?? I have been trying to breed another with no luck. Help!!

Unfortunately, there's a bug in the game that can cause villagers, including the Golden Child, to disappear if they are grabbed or dragged under certain circumstances. That portion of the game is being reworked for an update to Village Sim, but it is not yet ready.

There are some possibilities for recovery though, depending upon what you've done recently. I assume that you've exited the game since the disappearance, so it has been saved like that. If not, a soft reset will "restore" the game to a point before the Golden Child vanished.

Another recovery method is to reload the backup copy of the game from your PC and do a HotSync to replace the savegame file that's on your Palm device. If it's been awhile since your last HotSync, you might lose some game progress, but you'll be able to breed the Golden Child again. Depending upon the date and time of your last HotSync (when the game was backed up), you might need to temporarily change the date and time on your Palm to match the timestamp of the savegame file in order to keep bad things from happening - the game will treat the elasped time between the save and restore as time that the game is running unattended.

If you need help with any of this, please send me a PM and I'll give you all the help that you need.

Where is the backup copy on a PC and how do I access it (let alone download it to my Palm)?

It's very easy to restore the Village Sim savegame from your PC.

There are a couple of important points to keep in mind. Because of the way that the Palm OS works, your game is saved only when you exit (to the launcher or to another application). If you play for a long time and your device resets (intentionally or unintentionally) you will lose the progress you've made since the last time the game was saved. Also, the game is backed up to your PC only when you perform a HotSync. The best protection against losing progress in the game, therefore, is to exit Village Sim regularly and perform a HotSync occasionally to back it up on your PC.

Here's a good way to backup and restore a savegame to and from your PC:

The first thing you want to do is set your game speed to "paused" so that, no matter how long it is between when you save it and when you restore it, you won't have any disasters resulting from the passage of time. Then exit your game and perform a HotSync. That will put the most recent savegame on your PC. The savegame file (VillageSavegame.pdb) will be stored in the 'backup' folder for Palm desktop (usually \program files\palm (or palmone)\user_name\backup). To be extra safe, you can copy the savegame file to another folder somewhere else on your PC, so that subsequent HotSync operations won't overwrite it.

If disaster ever strikes and you need to restore your backup, go to the folder where your savegame file is stored and double-click it. That will put it into QuickInstall, ready to be HotSynced back onto your Palm. Perform another HotSync and VOILA! You're ready to start right up from where you left off. The only oddity that you will notice is that your "Realtime hours played" statistic will reflect the total time that the game has been "running" - including the time it was paused. That's just how that particular statistic works.