everything is labeled, from the way you described, as a second tribe so it actually looks like all is lost but i apprciate the help anyways.

there's 2 different VV2 folders in my ldw folder in my documents. both of them have the following

isola20.ldw
isola21.ldw
isola221.ldw


my son actually started another game before i could get to it so i think that's what those are refering to. so i guess i'll just have to start all over. oh well